But with the increasing body count from the followers of a certain religion you can't be that way any more.
When it comes to terrorism, backpacks are a far bigger risk than drones.
They police where not acting on the drone, they where acting on the fool flying the drone.
Crime rates have declined dramatically since the 1990s, for reasons that have nothing to do with "policing", yet today we have more police than ever. So they have to fabricate and exaggerate "crimes" to justify the inflated cost of over-policing.
Come election day, when you receive a mailer that says a candidate is endorsed by the police chief, you should vote for the other guy.
Yes. The author of TFA is an idiot. Crop rotation and cover crops are very common. So is no-till farming that minimizes soil disturbance.
None of this is new. No-till has been practiced for decades. Crop rotation and cover crops have been done for millennia. Even the Romans understood that fields should occasionally be left fallow, and that rotating legumes with grains could increase yields.
97% of farms in America are owned by families. 89% by area farmed.
big business gets the subsidies.
So? The purpose of the subsidies is to promote good practices not to "preserve family farms", so what difference does it make how the ownership is structured?
The analogy with "Big Tobacco" is apt. In both instances people are consuming something that is obvious bad for them, and then blaming their idiotic behavior on corporations because "they made me do it".
I remember hearing about nitrites+heat generating carcinogens 40 years ago. Nobody in their right mind believed that bacon was good for them.
Capitalism is not going green until it is profitable.
Then we need to make it profitable.
Two of the biggest reductions in CO2 emissions have come from LED lights and shale gas. Both of these industries were developed by profit seeking capitalists, and have been widely adopted because they actually make economic sense.
Residential batteries don't make sense, are not cost effective, and may not even be helping the environment. Maybe some new battery design may make sense, but then money should be going into battery bR&D, not battery installations.
I'm not sure what bizarre world you live in, but everywhere I have lived the number of appropriate weight people far outweighs the clearly out of shape ones.
I am guessing that you live in a urban area, and not in the rural south or Appalachia. I am also guessing that you don't shop at Walmart.
More than 60% of Americans are overweight, and more than 30% are obese, with a BMI of 30 or higher.
The fattest states are Mississippi and West Virginia.
How can you be sure the stuff stored on you is accurate?
It is still a wash. For everyone hurt, someone else is helped.
It is trivial to fuck someone over with their credit score if you don't like them by creating a dummy offshore organization, and then sending reports to Equfax, Experion, and Transunion about debts not paid
This has absolutely nothing to do with "apps" sharing data. Credit agencies have been around for decades. False information there can be a problem, but that has nothing to do with TFA.
Also, the credit agencies don't accept information from "dummy offshore organizations", and it is not at all "trivial" to submit information to be included in someone's report.
means denying you opportunities such as jobs or cheap insurance.
You need to look at the other side of the coin. For everyone denied an opportunity, someone else gets one. So if you have good credit, no medical problems, etc., then you should benefit from having your data widely shared.
50 is far below the 'viable' level and attempting to rescue such a species is unlikely to succeed.
This was true before DNA splicing was developed, but not anymore. A flock of 25 may lack sufficient genetic diversity, but we can splice in more variety by sequencing feathers in museum collections, or even from related species.
There are many reasons for this - bounced a check/overdrew an account in the past
Banks will not close your account because of bounced checks or overdrafts. In fact, they LOVE these irresponsible customers since they get to charge lots of fees.
Most banks offer a "no-checking" account that only allows payments via a debit card, and then only if enough money is in the account. These accounts are usually free.
medical or job problems, etc.
What does this have to do with having a bank account?
BoA charges a service fee of $12 a month for balances below $1500.
Only for "normal" checking accounts. Who needs that? I haven't written a paper check in years.
this man is still repairing the damage to his property months later.
What happened to him is very rare, and he was reimbursed by Airbnb.
Saying that you shouldn't rent rooms because of this is as silly as saying that you shouldn't go outside because you might get hit by lightning.
You think you're completely immune from assholes who don't respect your stuff?
I have 3 rooms that I rent for $100 per night each, with about 70% occupancy. That comes to ~$6000 per month. That is double what I could make with long term rentals. Over the last five years, I have had no more than a handful of broken plates and glasses, and a few towels with wine stains. Maybe $100 total.
Could I get a guest from hell? Sure, but I could also get hit by a meteor. I don't spend my life obsessively worrying about either.
Many entitlements were sold to the public as something that "the rich" would pay for, but it never works out that way.
Remember when Obama said the ACA would benefit "98% of all Americans and 99% of all plumbers"?
It didn't work out that way. About 40% benefited, and about 60% paid more. That may be reasonable, and there was likely no other way to make it work, but nonetheless, that was not the way it was sold.
Most proposals for UBI would fund it by dramatically reducing current entitlements. So someone getting a $1500 social security check, would see it reduced to the "universal" $500 or so. That chance of this being politically feasible: 0%.
If you take existing entitlements off the table, then there is no way to make UBI work.
I have an Airbnb, and have hosted hundreds of guests. I never had anything happen like what is described in TFA.
I once rented to a group of people that turned out to be a Harley motorcycle gang. When they checked out, the place was immaculate. All the laundry was done, the towels were folded, the dishes were washed and put away, and they left me a five star review.
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it is possible to fly it so that it pops in front of someone's windshield
ANYTHING is "possible". It is possible that the bridge will be struck by a meteor next week. So should we close it, you know, just in case?
the result is chaos that renders expensive infrastructure useless.
That is what happened in this case ... except it was the actions of the police, not the drone operator, that caused the problem.
But with the increasing body count from the followers of a certain religion you can't be that way any more.
When it comes to terrorism, backpacks are a far bigger risk than drones.
They police where not acting on the drone, they where acting on the fool flying the drone.
Crime rates have declined dramatically since the 1990s, for reasons that have nothing to do with "policing", yet today we have more police than ever. So they have to fabricate and exaggerate "crimes" to justify the inflated cost of over-policing.
Come election day, when you receive a mailer that says a candidate is endorsed by the police chief, you should vote for the other guy.
In what way are residential batteries and PV not saving money ?
Electricity demand is highest during the day, and lowest at night.
If Electricity is priced based on demand, the batteries are buying high and selling low, exactly the opposite of what makes sense.
Residential batteries are stupid. It makes far more sense to feed the power back into the grid.
Batteries only make sense where utilities misprice power, through either corruption or incompetence.
Do American farmers not practice Crop Rotation?
Yes. The author of TFA is an idiot. Crop rotation and cover crops are very common. So is no-till farming that minimizes soil disturbance.
None of this is new. No-till has been practiced for decades. Crop rotation and cover crops have been done for millennia. Even the Romans understood that fields should occasionally be left fallow, and that rotating legumes with grains could increase yields.
Now, there are no family farms
97% of farms in America are owned by families. 89% by area farmed.
big business gets the subsidies.
So? The purpose of the subsidies is to promote good practices not to "preserve family farms", so what difference does it make how the ownership is structured?
The analogy with "Big Tobacco" is apt. In both instances people are consuming something that is obvious bad for them, and then blaming their idiotic behavior on corporations because "they made me do it".
I remember hearing about nitrites+heat generating carcinogens 40 years ago. Nobody in their right mind believed that bacon was good for them.
Capitalism is not going green until it is profitable.
Then we need to make it profitable.
Two of the biggest reductions in CO2 emissions have come from LED lights and shale gas. Both of these industries were developed by profit seeking capitalists, and have been widely adopted because they actually make economic sense.
Residential batteries don't make sense, are not cost effective, and may not even be helping the environment. Maybe some new battery design may make sense, but then money should be going into battery bR&D, not battery installations.
I'm not sure what bizarre world you live in, but everywhere I have lived the number of appropriate weight people far outweighs the clearly out of shape ones.
I am guessing that you live in a urban area, and not in the rural south or Appalachia. I am also guessing that you don't shop at Walmart.
More than 60% of Americans are overweight, and more than 30% are obese, with a BMI of 30 or higher.
The fattest states are Mississippi and West Virginia.
The skinniest are Hawaii and Colorado.
How can you be sure the stuff stored on you is accurate?
It is still a wash. For everyone hurt, someone else is helped.
It is trivial to fuck someone over with their credit score if you don't like them by creating a dummy offshore organization, and then sending reports to Equfax, Experion, and Transunion about debts not paid
This has absolutely nothing to do with "apps" sharing data. Credit agencies have been around for decades. False information there can be a problem, but that has nothing to do with TFA.
Also, the credit agencies don't accept information from "dummy offshore organizations", and it is not at all "trivial" to submit information to be included in someone's report.
means denying you opportunities such as jobs or cheap insurance.
You need to look at the other side of the coin. For everyone denied an opportunity, someone else gets one. So if you have good credit, no medical problems, etc., then you should benefit from having your data widely shared.
50 is far below the 'viable' level and attempting to rescue such a species is unlikely to succeed.
This was true before DNA splicing was developed, but not anymore. A flock of 25 may lack sufficient genetic diversity, but we can splice in more variety by sequencing feathers in museum collections, or even from related species.
If you have a bad enough credit record/score then good luck getting any kind of account at a bank.
Nonsense. Bank do not do credit checks before opening a bank account.
Why would they? They are not offering credit.
There are many reasons for this - bounced a check/overdrew an account in the past
Banks will not close your account because of bounced checks or overdrafts. In fact, they LOVE these irresponsible customers since they get to charge lots of fees.
Most banks offer a "no-checking" account that only allows payments via a debit card, and then only if enough money is in the account. These accounts are usually free.
medical or job problems, etc.
What does this have to do with having a bank account?
BoA charges a service fee of $12 a month for balances below $1500.
Only for "normal" checking accounts. Who needs that? I haven't written a paper check in years.
I have yet to see a single physical retailer turn down cash.
Not in America. But some other countries are nearly cashless. Sweden and China are the furthest along.
I spent two months in Shanghai last fall. Number of times I touched cash: 0.
Even the panhandlers accept electronic payments via QR stickers on their signs.
LOL, no. That's 25 people out of 350,000,000+, which is nowhere near a large enough sample size.
A sample size of 25 is sufficient to give a p value of 0.9, which is more than good enough to decide to kill the project, or bump up the budget.
Selection bias is likely a way bigger issue than sample size.
The population size is irrelevant. The fact that you don't know that, implies you know little about statistics.
what if they break all the windows? What if they start ripping copper out of the walls?
They don't need to rent the place to do that. They can just smash in the front door with a sledgehammer.
Either way, this almost never happens. Spending your life cowering in the corner because of one-in-a-million risks is idiotic.
this man is still repairing the damage to his property months later.
What happened to him is very rare, and he was reimbursed by Airbnb.
Saying that you shouldn't rent rooms because of this is as silly as saying that you shouldn't go outside because you might get hit by lightning.
You think you're completely immune from assholes who don't respect your stuff?
I have 3 rooms that I rent for $100 per night each, with about 70% occupancy. That comes to ~$6000 per month. That is double what I could make with long term rentals. Over the last five years, I have had no more than a handful of broken plates and glasses, and a few towels with wine stains. Maybe $100 total.
Could I get a guest from hell? Sure, but I could also get hit by a meteor. I don't spend my life obsessively worrying about either.
Methinks the right wing doesn't want it.
Wow, you are really going out on a limb there. Do you really think the right is opposed to the most left-wing proposal ever?
Many entitlements were sold to the public as something that "the rich" would pay for, but it never works out that way.
Remember when Obama said the ACA would benefit "98% of all Americans and 99% of all plumbers"?
It didn't work out that way. About 40% benefited, and about 60% paid more. That may be reasonable, and there was likely no other way to make it work, but nonetheless, that was not the way it was sold.
Most proposals for UBI would fund it by dramatically reducing current entitlements. So someone getting a $1500 social security check, would see it reduced to the "universal" $500 or so. That chance of this being politically feasible: 0%.
If you take existing entitlements off the table, then there is no way to make UBI work.
Keep trusting strangers with your personal belongings.
Yeah, right. Because I am super worried they are going to steal the dishes I bought at Walmart five years ago.
Do you really think that Airbnbers leave their Ming vase collection sitting on the kitchen counter?
I have an Airbnb, and have hosted hundreds of guests. I never had anything happen like what is described in TFA.
I once rented to a group of people that turned out to be a Harley motorcycle gang. When they checked out, the place was immaculate. All the laundry was done, the towels were folded, the dishes were washed and put away, and they left me a five star review.
They can't afford even a million?
If they squandered a million on every harebrained scheme they would quickly be deep in debt.
$125k is enough to see if the idea has merit.
Someone above mentioned funding for maintainers. That would be a hell of a lot more productive
No, unconditional funding is a terrible idea. It would quickly turn into yet another entitlement.
Paying for finding/fixing actual bugs means money is only paid for performance.
Incentives need to be aligned with objectives. If you want bug fixes, you pay for bug fixes, not for "effort".
And what kind of person thinks a website called hamster dance is worth spending $1m on.
Someone that doesn't understand that fads fade.
When the news crews show up at the door, you are already at peak hamster.
Also, it isn't 1999 anymore, so why does the site still require Flash?