My parents were Silents and they both worked their asses off to own a nice home and fund a modest retirement. The single-earner with wife at home were at best the Greatest generation working in the 50s and 60s, not anyone since.
I need my phone to interrupt me in the event of a systems problem. I am basically always on call. Thankfully these notices are rare. I do not need to get amber alert messages or anything else.gov thinks is important. My cheap chinese phone has not gotten any test messages yet, so hopefully it also won't get the "real" thing.
The biggest problem in IT is that we refuse to learn from experience, even when documented as amazingly as people like Brooks have done. If it's not a buzzword it's not real.
Many small cities depend on ticketing and related court/fines/administrative charges. The riots in Ferguson were triggered by the insane level of over-policing; essentially every resident receives multiple tickets per year which all go back to finance the police and courts, and my understanding is this is common practice in many places.
You see those Facebook "Like" buttons and Login With Facebook forms all over the Internet? Well every time you see one of those, Facebook sees you and the exact page you're looking at when you see it. Even if you're never used Facebook in your life, they have a pretty good profile on you and what you do on the Internet. And it just gets worse for actual Facebook users.
There are two practical vehicles for sale in North America with decent range. One of them is the Tesla 3, which is in backorder hell. The other is the Chevy Bolt, which actually seems to be a decent vehicle. It's about $35,000 US, or $50,000 CDN. The Tesla 3 is about the same price.
That's at least double the price of a normal passenger car for something with a fraction the utility.
I think one would make a great commuting vehicle, but they aren't about to take over the market.
Let's re-evaluate in 2 or 3 years when a real variety of electric cars are on the market.
Well in most countries the government is also a lot more rational. My country has never had a "government shutdown", for instance. The thought of filibustering a budget just to protect illegal migrants would be so insane it would never happen. Or running a trillion dollar deficit (even scaled to population).
But hey, enjoy your craziness. If y'all didn't have nukes it'd be a lot more fun to watch from the sidelines, though.
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Per household. Also, most people don't work, and certainly not full time.
My parents were Silents and they both worked their asses off to own a nice home and fund a modest retirement. The single-earner with wife at home were at best the Greatest generation working in the 50s and 60s, not anyone since.
Plenty of people have hour-long daily commutes.
I need my phone to interrupt me in the event of a systems problem. I am basically always on call. Thankfully these notices are rare. I do not need to get amber alert messages or anything else .gov thinks is important. My cheap chinese phone has not gotten any test messages yet, so hopefully it also won't get the "real" thing.
Nah, it's only like 550km or so from Thunder Bay to the Manitoba border.
Some Canadian jurisdictions have done this as well. One Alberta government was in the habit of giving welfare recipients one-way bus tickets to BC.
If they're on welfare they aren't working anywhere.
Schools and a wide array of other services will be cut to the bone to pay for Boomer's underfunded pensions.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-26/pension-crisis-worse-you-think
The biggest problem in IT is that we refuse to learn from experience, even when documented as amazingly as people like Brooks have done. If it's not a buzzword it's not real.
root cause: proton decay
Many small cities depend on ticketing and related court/fines/administrative charges. The riots in Ferguson were triggered by the insane level of over-policing; essentially every resident receives multiple tickets per year which all go back to finance the police and courts, and my understanding is this is common practice in many places.
I agree. Only people who own their own house with off-street parking can realistically own electric vehicles today.
Yes. Stock buyers invest money in Tesla. Tesla loses that money.
The US government pays more per capita for health care than any other country.
The only problem is with all that money you only manage to deliver health care to old people, the military, and some poor people.
You're doing it wrong.
You see those Facebook "Like" buttons and Login With Facebook forms all over the Internet? Well every time you see one of those, Facebook sees you and the exact page you're looking at when you see it. Even if you're never used Facebook in your life, they have a pretty good profile on you and what you do on the Internet. And it just gets worse for actual Facebook users.
And not available in North America.
There are two practical vehicles for sale in North America with decent range. One of them is the Tesla 3, which is in backorder hell. The other is the Chevy Bolt, which actually seems to be a decent vehicle. It's about $35,000 US, or $50,000 CDN. The Tesla 3 is about the same price.
That's at least double the price of a normal passenger car for something with a fraction the utility.
I think one would make a great commuting vehicle, but they aren't about to take over the market.
Let's re-evaluate in 2 or 3 years when a real variety of electric cars are on the market.
This is probably true about all season 3 and 4.
Well in most countries the government is also a lot more rational. My country has never had a "government shutdown", for instance. The thought of filibustering a budget just to protect illegal migrants would be so insane it would never happen. Or running a trillion dollar deficit (even scaled to population).
But hey, enjoy your craziness. If y'all didn't have nukes it'd be a lot more fun to watch from the sidelines, though.
Well, it covers everyone. And you can leave your job without having to worry about your health insurance going away.
Also, you import like 7-8 million barrels per day. It seems dumb to ship it back out again.
America should maybe stop interfering in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, then.
The earth thrived.
Our modern global economy and human agriculture, not so much, because we didn't exist.
And every big swing included a large round of extinctions.
4C will make the equator unliveable.
20 ... I don't think the planet has ever been 20 degrees warmer. I think that would kill pretty much everything on earth, including us.
And the GTA, sadly, has almost 50% of the province's population anyway.