There is no economy when your country's ecology is destroyed. Poland is run by idiots of the same stripe as Trump. Indonesia is a dictatorship. Australia is ripe for solar -- lots of empty land area with strong sunlight. Doubt that plans to mine more coal will go far.
Fossil farts are still a fossil fool. We should have done the same as the French "Plan Messmer" and gone mostly nuclear-powered through the 70s and 80s, Chernobyl and TMI be damned. Nuclear is clean, fossil fools are not.
US kitchen outlets must be GFCI'ed. Also, most of the kettles in question are plastic, with the outside of the metal heating element connected to ground (not neutral). Safe to use with or without a "true neutral."
US supplies are two-phase. Two hots, 180 degrees out of phase. Three-phase is 120 degrees out of phase, so on. Keep dividing 360 by the number of phases.
Now, what's CALLED two-phase in the US really isn't. It's half of a four-phase system, with two wires 90 degrees out of phase.
You can use UK kettles on a US 220V 15 or 20 amp outlet, and they can easily be ordered on Amazon. Just use an air conditioner outlet or convert one branch circuit in the kitchen to 220V at the panel (2 hots, ground, no neutral, 220V outlets).
Put a US 220V plug on the kettle. The kettle doesn't care whether it's getting 220V at 50 or 60Hz, it's just a big resistive load.
That's the point: to bypass the voters. Democracy is generally over-rated -- it's been described as a bunch of wolves voting on which sheep to eat. If a single crow can scare off the wolves, it's a good outcome.
Why not use everything you can as a weapon? Get them using the software, make it integral to their processes, then pull the rug from under them as far as update licensing. If they keep using it, you have grounds to sue. Use the court system to help human rights, through fair or foul means.
Yet the average middle-class Canadian isn't ruined by a car accident or a medical emergency. There are more middle-class and poor Canadians that benefit from their system than ultra-rich people who can afford to go to the US. The stuff that's done in the US is either:
(a) elective -- things like getting knee replacement in a month instead of six months or
(b) treatment for very rare diseases
Either way, outcomes in Canada, for the average Canadian, are better than average outcomes in the US. You have to look at averages, not what the top 0.1% do.
If he can keep pulling it off, more power to him. There's no pride in working for the same organization 60 hours a week with a week's vaca every year until they kick you out unceremoniously at age 60. YOLO. Live a little.
As a citizen or legal resident with a serious problem, it's far faster and easier than in the USA. If you need a knee replacement due to poor life choices, you may have to wait a few months, no big deal -- your issue isn't immediately life threatening.
I'd prefer somewhere like Czech Republic to be honest. Lax law enforcement as far as victimless crimes, porous borders due to the EU, and relatively small amount of spending on military parasitism abroad. The US military and law enforcement are oversized drains of resources -- parasites on the public dole.
The problem is that the US is so big that no one is really represented anymore. It would be better for the US (and the world) if the US split into a few different countries, or a loose confederation of super-states.
Maybe. If they weaken the Fed gov to the point that the US ends up a virtual confederation, then they'd be a good thing for states like California being able to run their affairs on their own without Federal interference (lax immigration, lax drug laws, strict environmental laws, public healthcare). Less money being taken by DC would mean states being able to tax more for services in their own states while cutting unpopular services. Under the right circumstances, Calexit wouldn't be needed since DC would wither and die.
Good for him -- sounds like he does the work he needs to, then takes breaks and maybe travels. Unlike the average American who takes 1 week of vacation per year.
No. As a US citizen, you're being ROBBED of your tax money to support ICE and other law enforcement nonsense. You're as much contracting with ICE as people who are forced to pay the Mafia "protection money" are contracting with the Mafia for fire protection. Robbery, plain and simple.
Does that mean that you can install full Office 365 on 20 devices, and so long as you save locally and not on the cloud, you can use them? Or will some of the devices be in limited functionality mode, only allowing viewing, not even local save?
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There is no economy when your country's ecology is destroyed. Poland is run by idiots of the same stripe as Trump. Indonesia is a dictatorship. Australia is ripe for solar -- lots of empty land area with strong sunlight. Doubt that plans to mine more coal will go far.
Fossil farts are still a fossil fool. We should have done the same as the French "Plan Messmer" and gone mostly nuclear-powered through the 70s and 80s, Chernobyl and TMI be damned. Nuclear is clean, fossil fools are not.
So they're blocking Windows and Mac support ads while keeping the "run to the cloud" cloud-migration partner ads? Seems like good business sense...
US kitchen outlets must be GFCI'ed. Also, most of the kettles in question are plastic, with the outside of the metal heating element connected to ground (not neutral). Safe to use with or without a "true neutral."
It's almost like 150+ years of colonial rule (Turkish, French, US, British, Israeli) has bad results.
US supplies are two-phase. Two hots, 180 degrees out of phase. Three-phase is 120 degrees out of phase, so on. Keep dividing 360 by the number of phases.
Now, what's CALLED two-phase in the US really isn't. It's half of a four-phase system, with two wires 90 degrees out of phase.
You can use UK kettles on a US 220V 15 or 20 amp outlet, and they can easily be ordered on Amazon. Just use an air conditioner outlet or convert one branch circuit in the kitchen to 220V at the panel (2 hots, ground, no neutral, 220V outlets).
Put a US 220V plug on the kettle. The kettle doesn't care whether it's getting 220V at 50 or 60Hz, it's just a big resistive load.
That's the point: to bypass the voters. Democracy is generally over-rated -- it's been described as a bunch of wolves voting on which sheep to eat. If a single crow can scare off the wolves, it's a good outcome.
Why not use everything you can as a weapon? Get them using the software, make it integral to their processes, then pull the rug from under them as far as update licensing. If they keep using it, you have grounds to sue. Use the court system to help human rights, through fair or foul means.
Yet the average middle-class Canadian isn't ruined by a car accident or a medical emergency. There are more middle-class and poor Canadians that benefit from their system than ultra-rich people who can afford to go to the US. The stuff that's done in the US is either: (a) elective -- things like getting knee replacement in a month instead of six months or (b) treatment for very rare diseases Either way, outcomes in Canada, for the average Canadian, are better than average outcomes in the US. You have to look at averages, not what the top 0.1% do.
As a one-time fee, it's still cheaper than being continually robbed blind by the filth in DC.
Sure we do: expatriate. Renounce citizenship. US citizenship isn't worth all that much anyway.
That would basically be an EU-type funding model -- that might actually work pretty well.
Even a stopped Russian clock is right twice a day.
Since many employers treat workers in the US poorly, why is anyone upset when the tables are turned?
Problem is that the central government isn't terribly accountable to the places that actually have the people.
If he can keep pulling it off, more power to him. There's no pride in working for the same organization 60 hours a week with a week's vaca every year until they kick you out unceremoniously at age 60. YOLO. Live a little.
As a citizen or legal resident with a serious problem, it's far faster and easier than in the USA. If you need a knee replacement due to poor life choices, you may have to wait a few months, no big deal -- your issue isn't immediately life threatening.
I'd prefer somewhere like Czech Republic to be honest. Lax law enforcement as far as victimless crimes, porous borders due to the EU, and relatively small amount of spending on military parasitism abroad. The US military and law enforcement are oversized drains of resources -- parasites on the public dole.
The problem is that the US is so big that no one is really represented anymore. It would be better for the US (and the world) if the US split into a few different countries, or a loose confederation of super-states.
Maybe. If they weaken the Fed gov to the point that the US ends up a virtual confederation, then they'd be a good thing for states like California being able to run their affairs on their own without Federal interference (lax immigration, lax drug laws, strict environmental laws, public healthcare). Less money being taken by DC would mean states being able to tax more for services in their own states while cutting unpopular services. Under the right circumstances, Calexit wouldn't be needed since DC would wither and die.
Good for him -- sounds like he does the work he needs to, then takes breaks and maybe travels. Unlike the average American who takes 1 week of vacation per year.
No. As a US citizen, you're being ROBBED of your tax money to support ICE and other law enforcement nonsense. You're as much contracting with ICE as people who are forced to pay the Mafia "protection money" are contracting with the Mafia for fire protection. Robbery, plain and simple.
Does that mean that you can install full Office 365 on 20 devices, and so long as you save locally and not on the cloud, you can use them? Or will some of the devices be in limited functionality mode, only allowing viewing, not even local save?
Most Americans deserve to condescension, and more.