Perhaps it should be noted that the Chinese are not actually doing it, or even planning to do so. The proposal to charge inefficient cars more did not come from the government. It came from the boss of a manufacturer of small cars. Basically, he is proposing that his competitors should be taxed more. Chance of this actually being implemented: ~0%.
Mine has never been lower. I replaced all my lights with LEDs, added insulation to my attic, and installed timers and motion detectors. I cut my electricity use by a third, and in less than a year saved enough to pay for all the improvements. Last time I was at Lowe's, they had LED light bulbs for under $1. At that price, the pay back is just a couple months.
If you are cheating, you won't hurt anyone except yourself
Not true. When I review resumes, if they list a degree from certain colleges, I automatically toss them in the trash. I have learned from experience that those schools graduate incompetents. So by cheating your way through, you are degrading the reputation of your institution, and hurting everyone who graduates.
The problem is that phones/watches can be used to communicate. So snap a photo of the test, transmit it to your paid accomplice, who completes the exam and sends the answers back. You get an A+ while having no understanding of the subject matter. So the only difference in grades will depend on how much you can afford to spend on your test taker.
I would guess that it's a reasonable proxy for PINs that people get to choose themselves
I don't think so. I often use something like "1234" for some stupid throwaway account on a website that shouldn't even have accounts in the first place. But I use something pseudo-random (meaningful to me, but random to anyone else) for anything important, like a bank card.
What exactly did Reagan do that previous administrations back to Truman's hadn't done?
Americans don't care what their politicians do, only what they say. Reagan talked like a conservative, but governed like a liberal, running big deficits, negotiating with Gorbachev, continuing and expanding most social spending, etc. So conservatives loved him and liberals hated him. Bill Clinton did the opposite: he talked like a liberal, but governed as a conservative. He cut welfare, balanced the budget, pushed through free market reforms and free trade agreements, and sent bombers into the Balkans. So liberals loved him, and conservatives hated him.
there are designs available for coal plants* that don't emit anything but CO2?
Emissions are only one concern. There is a lot of environmental damage caused by mining the coal. Better scrubbers don't fix that problem. Coal emits twice as much CO2 as gas, and gas is just as cheap, is cleaner to extract and transport, and has no sulfur, mercury, or cadmium. Gas turbines are also more responsive to fluctuations in demand, so are a better match for wind/solar.
Headline should be Oregon set to be the first HIGHEST UTILITY RATES IN THE NATION state.
Oregon has electricity rates below the median for America. Their rates are much less than I pay in California. Although in California we are almost coal free, at 0.5% of production.
You're overestimating drone capability as well as mis-stating and mis-understanding the purpose of drones.
We should be designing aircraft to meet future threats, not current threats.
no one's working on any type of dedicated air to air drone.
No one in America is working on it, because it would be a threat to the MIC. The USAF is run by pilots, and for pilots, and nearly all drone innovation has come from outside their ranks. Defense contractors dread the far lower costs of drones. They prefer lucrative boondoggles like the F-35. Politicians don't want to stand up to the MIC, because they will be subjected to withering attack ads claiming they are "weak on defence".
It is more likely that China and Russia are working on air-to-air capability, since they have more to gain from challenging American hegemony, and, although they are corrupt, their corruption doesn't involve the same military-political-lobbyist links that America has, and they don't have super-PACs supporting the status quo.
The F-35 can dogfight, but like any fighter, it has strengths and weaknesses.
Whether or not it can dogfight against other manned fighters is irrelevant, since that scenario is unlikely. A more important questions is if it can dogfight against drones with half the turning radius, when outnumbered 5 to 1.
The era of piloted aircraft is rapidly closing. I fear that we are preparing for a gunfight by spending a trillion dollars on a really nice knife.
I'd say the republicans want to keep them around so they can pay them less than minimum wage and drive wages down.
In California, minimum wage is $10/hour. At least where I live, you cannot hire day laborers for less than that. They won't take the job, and since the demand for labor is higher than the supply, they don't need to. Considering that they are working tax free, $10 in cash is effectively a lot more than minimum wage.
maybe, just maybe, they'll learn to compromise and actually consider working for the people.
The last time the politicians compromised, the American people got the Iraq war. I prefer gridlock over compromise.
Also, why is anyone surprised that Trump gets along better with lefty journalists? Fox News has been his biggest critic. For leftists, Trump is like a dream come true. Not only are the Dems likely to hold onto the presidency, but if a lot Republicans stay home in November, they may take control of the senate as well.
I should instead remember to go onto the web site of every service I use that provides statements, at the correct time each month
My bank keeps statements online for two years. I download them annually, when I start working on my taxes.
manually download that statement
... which takes less time than opening an envelope and filing a paper in the right physical folder.
then save it somewhere completely safe and/or manually print it at my own expense?
An SSD automatically backed up by an encrypted offsite archive, such as Dropbox, is far safer than a paper copy.
I'm not seeing how your way is better.
You should talk to my dad. He thinks the web is fad, and it is just a matter of time till everyone realizes how silly it is and goes back to mailing paper letters written in cursive. I think the two of you would have a lot in common.
I wonder how long until this is considered a criminal enterprise or the cops end up demanding the user database.
Nobody really cares about "illegal immigrants". The Democrats see them as future Democratic voters, and the Republicans want to keep them around as a wedge issue that they can exploit. Most cops are local government employees, and immigration is a federal matter. In my city, San Jose, California, cops are prohibited from asking about anyone's immigration status, unless they have already been arrested for other reasons.
They better be current on all their reporting to the IRS before making any claims for or against anyone.
I don't think the idea is to "make claims", but to make it harder for abusive employers to find laborers. My company occasionally needs extra labor for a rush job, and I head over to the local Home Depot parking lot to pick up some Mexicans. They all know each other, and word spreads fast, so scumbag employers will drive around and try different laborer congregation sites. This app will help guard against this by spreading information more widely. I never have a problem because we pay hard cash at the end of the work day. We also provide a free hot lunch (hot in both temperature and condiments).
So far, the only way that happens is if they mail me paper copies.
Or you could use a PRINTER to make a hardcopy only when you need it, which 99.9% of the time, is NEVER.
I have been paperless for years, and never, not once, have I needed a paper copy of a bank statement. When I refinanced my house, I just emailed the PDFs to the mortgage company.
A deep keel would help with stability. Since their ships are barges, I assume they have no keels. When I was a Marine, I spent quite a bit of time on amphibious ships (aka "gators") which also have no keels, so they can get in close to the shore. They rolled a lot in rough seas, and I spent many days puking over the railing.
There are rules in place already on how traditional TV/News outlets provide election candidate coverage.
Broadcast frequencies are (or were) a limited resource, so the government is (or was) somewhat justified in dictating how they can be used. Besides, the existing regulations are designed to provide equal access. They do not make the government into the arbiter of "truth". Candidates can still say whatever they want (proof: Donald Trump).
rhetorical threats from a mentally unstable leader
Kim is NOT mentally unstable. His actions are deliberate and rational. The Kim dynasty has been in power for 70 years. They have wrung concession after concession out of the rest of the world. If Kim negotiated calmly, no one would cave in to his demands. But by issuing threats, and using bizarre behavior, he has been able to get his opponents to accept any deal this is even halfway sane.
The North needs to deescalate.
That would be foolish. It would lead to the end of his regime. He needs an external enemy to justify his rule.
I'm not a math major, but I would like to know how many parking spots will a 20 megaton US nuclear bomb yield?
The US doesn't have any 20 megaton bombs. The last weapons in that range were decommissioned 40 years ago. Most US strategic warheads are 200KT or less. That is still 10 Nagasakis, but only 1% of 20MT. Nuclear arsenals today are vastly smaller than they were at the height of the cold war.
Yup, nobody had EVER heard of the brand Hilton (Hotels) before Paris came along...
Hilton Hotels is not a reality TV brand. Conrad Hilton had dozens of great-grandchildren. None of the others are near as famous, or as rich, as Paris. She certainly had a lot of advantages in life. But she has built on those advantages, rather than squandering them like most of her relatives. Holding her up as an example of a "petulant child incapable of simple arithmetic" is nonsense.
You are right. A family name isn't enough, you also need a sex tape.
The sex tape was not something that "just happened". It was "leaked" just three weeks before the premier of her first TV show, just enough time to reach maximum buzz before the show was aired, and it doubled or maybe tripled the number of viewers. She took no legal action to stop it, or limit its distribution. She was able to ride the publicity for a five-season run. She also wrote a New York Times bestseller about her life. She is not an air-head, but she plays one on TV.
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I hope so. This is good for the planet.
Perhaps it should be noted that the Chinese are not actually doing it, or even planning to do so. The proposal to charge inefficient cars more did not come from the government. It came from the boss of a manufacturer of small cars. Basically, he is proposing that his competitors should be taxed more. Chance of this actually being implemented: ~0%.
Has never been higher.
Mine has never been lower. I replaced all my lights with LEDs, added insulation to my attic, and installed timers and motion detectors. I cut my electricity use by a third, and in less than a year saved enough to pay for all the improvements. Last time I was at Lowe's, they had LED light bulbs for under $1. At that price, the pay back is just a couple months.
If you are cheating, you won't hurt anyone except yourself
Not true. When I review resumes, if they list a degree from certain colleges, I automatically toss them in the trash. I have learned from experience that those schools graduate incompetents. So by cheating your way through, you are degrading the reputation of your institution, and hurting everyone who graduates.
The problem is that phones/watches can be used to communicate. So snap a photo of the test, transmit it to your paid accomplice, who completes the exam and sends the answers back. You get an A+ while having no understanding of the subject matter. So the only difference in grades will depend on how much you can afford to spend on your test taker.
I would guess that it's a reasonable proxy for PINs that people get to choose themselves
I don't think so. I often use something like "1234" for some stupid throwaway account on a website that shouldn't even have accounts in the first place. But I use something pseudo-random (meaningful to me, but random to anyone else) for anything important, like a bank card.
Hmm, why is it clear that Serbs were the major dicks?
Murdering 8000 civilians at Srebrenica was certainly dickish.
What exactly did Reagan do that previous administrations back to Truman's hadn't done?
Americans don't care what their politicians do, only what they say. Reagan talked like a conservative, but governed like a liberal, running big deficits, negotiating with Gorbachev, continuing and expanding most social spending, etc. So conservatives loved him and liberals hated him. Bill Clinton did the opposite: he talked like a liberal, but governed as a conservative. He cut welfare, balanced the budget, pushed through free market reforms and free trade agreements, and sent bombers into the Balkans. So liberals loved him, and conservatives hated him.
there are designs available for coal plants* that don't emit anything but CO2?
Emissions are only one concern. There is a lot of environmental damage caused by mining the coal. Better scrubbers don't fix that problem. Coal emits twice as much CO2 as gas, and gas is just as cheap, is cleaner to extract and transport, and has no sulfur, mercury, or cadmium. Gas turbines are also more responsive to fluctuations in demand, so are a better match for wind/solar.
Headline should be Oregon set to be the first HIGHEST UTILITY RATES IN THE NATION state.
Oregon has electricity rates below the median for America. Their rates are much less than I pay in California. Although in California we are almost coal free, at 0.5% of production.
You're overestimating drone capability as well as mis-stating and mis-understanding the purpose of drones.
We should be designing aircraft to meet future threats, not current threats.
no one's working on any type of dedicated air to air drone.
No one in America is working on it, because it would be a threat to the MIC. The USAF is run by pilots, and for pilots, and nearly all drone innovation has come from outside their ranks. Defense contractors dread the far lower costs of drones. They prefer lucrative boondoggles like the F-35. Politicians don't want to stand up to the MIC, because they will be subjected to withering attack ads claiming they are "weak on defence".
It is more likely that China and Russia are working on air-to-air capability, since they have more to gain from challenging American hegemony, and, although they are corrupt, their corruption doesn't involve the same military-political-lobbyist links that America has, and they don't have super-PACs supporting the status quo.
The F-35 can dogfight, but like any fighter, it has strengths and weaknesses.
Whether or not it can dogfight against other manned fighters is irrelevant, since that scenario is unlikely. A more important questions is if it can dogfight against drones with half the turning radius, when outnumbered 5 to 1.
The era of piloted aircraft is rapidly closing. I fear that we are preparing for a gunfight by spending a trillion dollars on a really nice knife.
I'd say the republicans want to keep them around so they can pay them less than minimum wage and drive wages down.
In California, minimum wage is $10/hour. At least where I live, you cannot hire day laborers for less than that. They won't take the job, and since the demand for labor is higher than the supply, they don't need to. Considering that they are working tax free, $10 in cash is effectively a lot more than minimum wage.
maybe, just maybe, they'll learn to compromise and actually consider working for the people.
The last time the politicians compromised, the American people got the Iraq war. I prefer gridlock over compromise.
Also, why is anyone surprised that Trump gets along better with lefty journalists? Fox News has been his biggest critic. For leftists, Trump is like a dream come true. Not only are the Dems likely to hold onto the presidency, but if a lot Republicans stay home in November, they may take control of the senate as well.
I should instead remember to go onto the web site of every service I use that provides statements, at the correct time each month
My bank keeps statements online for two years. I download them annually, when I start working on my taxes.
manually download that statement
... which takes less time than opening an envelope and filing a paper in the right physical folder.
then save it somewhere completely safe and/or manually print it at my own expense?
An SSD automatically backed up by an encrypted offsite archive, such as Dropbox, is far safer than a paper copy.
I'm not seeing how your way is better.
You should talk to my dad. He thinks the web is fad, and it is just a matter of time till everyone realizes how silly it is and goes back to mailing paper letters written in cursive. I think the two of you would have a lot in common.
I wonder how long until this is considered a criminal enterprise or the cops end up demanding the user database.
Nobody really cares about "illegal immigrants". The Democrats see them as future Democratic voters, and the Republicans want to keep them around as a wedge issue that they can exploit. Most cops are local government employees, and immigration is a federal matter. In my city, San Jose, California, cops are prohibited from asking about anyone's immigration status, unless they have already been arrested for other reasons.
They better be current on all their reporting to the IRS before making any claims for or against anyone.
I don't think the idea is to "make claims", but to make it harder for abusive employers to find laborers. My company occasionally needs extra labor for a rush job, and I head over to the local Home Depot parking lot to pick up some Mexicans. They all know each other, and word spreads fast, so scumbag employers will drive around and try different laborer congregation sites. This app will help guard against this by spreading information more widely. I never have a problem because we pay hard cash at the end of the work day. We also provide a free hot lunch (hot in both temperature and condiments).
The plane is a thousand times more likely to hit a bird.
So far, the only way that happens is if they mail me paper copies.
Or you could use a PRINTER to make a hardcopy only when you need it, which 99.9% of the time, is NEVER.
I have been paperless for years, and never, not once, have I needed a paper copy of a bank statement. When I refinanced my house, I just emailed the PDFs to the mortgage company.
A deep keel would help with stability. Since their ships are barges, I assume they have no keels. When I was a Marine, I spent quite a bit of time on amphibious ships (aka "gators") which also have no keels, so they can get in close to the shore. They rolled a lot in rough seas, and I spent many days puking over the railing.
There are rules in place already on how traditional TV/News outlets provide election candidate coverage.
Broadcast frequencies are (or were) a limited resource, so the government is (or was) somewhat justified in dictating how they can be used. Besides, the existing regulations are designed to provide equal access. They do not make the government into the arbiter of "truth". Candidates can still say whatever they want (proof: Donald Trump).
rhetorical threats from a mentally unstable leader
Kim is NOT mentally unstable. His actions are deliberate and rational. The Kim dynasty has been in power for 70 years. They have wrung concession after concession out of the rest of the world. If Kim negotiated calmly, no one would cave in to his demands. But by issuing threats, and using bizarre behavior, he has been able to get his opponents to accept any deal this is even halfway sane.
The North needs to deescalate.
That would be foolish. It would lead to the end of his regime. He needs an external enemy to justify his rule.
I'm not a math major, but I would like to know how many parking spots will a 20 megaton US nuclear bomb yield?
The US doesn't have any 20 megaton bombs. The last weapons in that range were decommissioned 40 years ago. Most US strategic warheads are 200KT or less. That is still 10 Nagasakis, but only 1% of 20MT. Nuclear arsenals today are vastly smaller than they were at the height of the cold war.
Is as accurate as TornadoGuard?
Yup, nobody had EVER heard of the brand Hilton (Hotels) before Paris came along...
Hilton Hotels is not a reality TV brand. Conrad Hilton had dozens of great-grandchildren. None of the others are near as famous, or as rich, as Paris. She certainly had a lot of advantages in life. But she has built on those advantages, rather than squandering them like most of her relatives. Holding her up as an example of a "petulant child incapable of simple arithmetic" is nonsense.
You are right. A family name isn't enough, you also need a sex tape.
The sex tape was not something that "just happened". It was "leaked" just three weeks before the premier of her first TV show, just enough time to reach maximum buzz before the show was aired, and it doubled or maybe tripled the number of viewers. She took no legal action to stop it, or limit its distribution. She was able to ride the publicity for a five-season run. She also wrote a New York Times bestseller about her life. She is not an air-head, but she plays one on TV.