Motorcycle insurance is way more expensive than car insurance here. Driving a motorcycle is very dangerous, and often ends in expensive injury and disability claims.
With the small problems that no one builds any new or replacement housing, or performs any maintenance on existing housing. Rent control is how you get both slums and high rents (hello New York).
I'm sure it works reliably. The problem is that it is the worst kind of automation. It doesn't require your attention until something urgent happens, which means you're very likely to be fatally distracted doing something else. And it will de-skill the operators so they will quickly forget how to actually drive on the highway themselves.
Anyone using these self-drive systems is setting themselves and people around them up to die.
Gee, I don't know. Maybe it's the constant stream of hacking attempts literally everyone running anything attached to the Internet sees daily from Russia and China.
I didn't say anything about life expectancy. I stated facts about our medical system. I am Canadian. We cannot choose to pay for health care outside the public system, it's illegal.
The US system is also terrible but for entirely different reasons.
No, I live here. I assure you you cannot pay for your own health care or buy insurance for services provided by universal health care. Our private insurance is only for things the public health care system doesn't do - drugs, dental, vision, etc.
And I personally know people who have travelled to the US to get surgery that they would otherwise have had to wait 6 months to 2 years for here.
Sorry, in Canada you're not allowed to buy your own health insurance. You can die in the queue like all the peons. Or go to the US, which is what our actual rich people do.
Canada is less socialist than most of the US. Literally the only socialist thing we do that you don't is provide medical care to everyone, not just poor people, elderly, and the military. And we do it spending less money per capita than you do just on those groups.
Are they worried enough to change their own behaviour? Are they driving small cars (or none), travelling only when essential, and choosing to live in smaller more energy-efficient houses? Are they deliberately buying less manufactured stuff, or cutting back on beef consumption?
Or are they just worried enough to want "someone else" to pay for changes?
Apple made money over the last 15 years by inventing entire new classes of must-have devices. Starting with portable music players, and then moving to phones and tablets. They've mostly failed with the watches but they'll keep trying until we are fully cyborg-ized at all times.
Seriously. Every fucking time socialists take over a country the same thing happens. And yet you still argue that if they just did it right it will work out fine.
It won't. We are tribal monkeys. We work for ourselves and our families. If we don't get to keep the rewards we don't work. Every fucking time.
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ugh. atmospheric nitrogen, and water. not carbon, obviously.
Biofuels are an ecological disaster, and can't scale to any appreciable fraction of fuel usage.
What we should be doing is turning atmospheric carbon into ammonia, and burning it in our existing engines.
Motorcycle insurance is way more expensive than car insurance here. Driving a motorcycle is very dangerous, and often ends in expensive injury and disability claims.
We should just be burning ammonia.
http://www.greennh3.com/
If this is the way the industry's going, fuck'em.
With the small problems that no one builds any new or replacement housing, or performs any maintenance on existing housing. Rent control is how you get both slums and high rents (hello New York).
I'm sure it works reliably. The problem is that it is the worst kind of automation. It doesn't require your attention until something urgent happens, which means you're very likely to be fatally distracted doing something else. And it will de-skill the operators so they will quickly forget how to actually drive on the highway themselves.
Anyone using these self-drive systems is setting themselves and people around them up to die.
Gee, I don't know. Maybe it's the constant stream of hacking attempts literally everyone running anything attached to the Internet sees daily from Russia and China.
Sugar.
Vegetable "oil", which is really a chemical nightmare.
No fiber.
Sugar.
Sugar.
Sure they were happier. But someone has to fucking pay for it, and I guarantee they aren't any happier when their taxes go up.
Anything you get paid to do that doesn't hurt anyone else is legitimate, yes.
I didn't say anything about life expectancy. I stated facts about our medical system. I am Canadian. We cannot choose to pay for health care outside the public system, it's illegal.
The US system is also terrible but for entirely different reasons.
No, I live here. I assure you you cannot pay for your own health care or buy insurance for services provided by universal health care. Our private insurance is only for things the public health care system doesn't do - drugs, dental, vision, etc.
And I personally know people who have travelled to the US to get surgery that they would otherwise have had to wait 6 months to 2 years for here.
Work is the something interesting most of us do with our lives. People are most satisfied when they are doing challenging, meaningful work.
Automation strips us of that and leaves mindless machine-tending or welfare in it's place.
Sorry, in Canada you're not allowed to buy your own health insurance. You can die in the queue like all the peons. Or go to the US, which is what our actual rich people do.
Canada is less socialist than most of the US. Literally the only socialist thing we do that you don't is provide medical care to everyone, not just poor people, elderly, and the military. And we do it spending less money per capita than you do just on those groups.
If Netflix starts showing me ads I'll just start torrenting again. Fuck ads.
Are they worried enough to change their own behaviour? Are they driving small cars (or none), travelling only when essential, and choosing to live in smaller more energy-efficient houses? Are they deliberately buying less manufactured stuff, or cutting back on beef consumption?
Or are they just worried enough to want "someone else" to pay for changes?
Pretty sure that if you're just fighting over the comparison to one of the worst police states on the planets, you've already lost this argument.
We aren't going to stop using fossil fuels. We aren't going to build thousands of nuclear plants.
We are going to have to live with climate change. It's a done deal. We have 7.5 billion people and are still growing.
If the "west" cuts back on fossil fuel use it will just make it cheaper for Africa and Asia to burn it.
Don't buy waterfront property.
I've never owned an apple product, and probably never will. And I know they didn't invent any of those things.
But I can still give them credit for making all those things fashionable must-have devices with actual usable interfaces.
Apple made money over the last 15 years by inventing entire new classes of must-have devices. Starting with portable music players, and then moving to phones and tablets. They've mostly failed with the watches but they'll keep trying until we are fully cyborg-ized at all times.
Rent-seeking will never stop. It makes too much money.
Seriously. Every fucking time socialists take over a country the same thing happens. And yet you still argue that if they just did it right it will work out fine.
It won't. We are tribal monkeys. We work for ourselves and our families. If we don't get to keep the rewards we don't work. Every fucking time.
Yeah it'd be under 50k here to become a nurse, and they can make six figures with enough overtime. Teaching pays pretty well, too.