They should have done what Kwik Loc did. They make the machine (and more impotently) the plastic tabs used to close produce bags and bread wrappers. They trademarked the shape of the tab and no other shape will work in their machine, no DRM needed.
Farmers grow corn to sell to ranchers who sell beef to anyone who wants to buy it. Forcing people not to sell beef will not feed anyone, the farmers will simply plant less corn. The gleaming, Apple store solar powered world you envision is impossible. The dirty real horsepower world of 1840 is much more likely.
Not to say climate change isn't happening, it just isn't that much of a problem now. Some have postulated a WW II sized mobilization will be necessary to fight climate change. In 1940 England was in imminent danger of being invaded but the military had to draft people who wouldn't fight otherwise. A climate draft will be necessary. I already live on a farm. I hope you like heat and bugs.
I don't imagine I would have any trouble. Of course I am an old white guy and by the time I figured out how to take a video with my phone the action would be over. Also my son is a lawyer and a best friend's son is a county judge. YMMV
Disability is a hard thing to prove. If after walking down to the mailbox I collapse in front yard how can you prove I'm not faking?
I remember in the 50's sometimes the workers picking up potatoes in my father's field would bring their children with them. There was usually a teen girl watching the babies. Modern farming methods eliminated millions of jobs.
As productivity has increased the need for workers has greatly diminished. Securing the border and bringing manufacturing back will still not supply enough jobs. There is no simple solution. Supposedly the oil is going to run out and the economy crash so no one will be worrying about welfare or disability.
I watch home improvement shows. Often the electrician will come in and install a bigger breaker box. I always want to know where the extra wire length comes from. Every box I have ever been in ( quite a few, I was an industrial electrician) has no extra wire. When a building is wired the electrical installer takes the slack out each wire he is hooking up and snips it off. Most panels have wires entering from the top and bottom so moving the box wont get you any slack.
I had a co-worker who would leave an extra loop of wire for each circuit, that way if you had a breaker burn out you could cut the wire back. This made for a very stuffed box but he meticulously routed and zip tied each line. He was a trained aircraft electrician.
The main reason I didn't go to college was I hated to write and couldn't spell. This was 1970 when not going to college meant you got drafted and I was. I too am left handed. I took some college courses in 1997. With the internet and Word on my computer writing reports was fun. I also found out C++ programming was boring and went back to my automated packaging machine tech job.
You did watch the Rodny King riots. Do you remember the white guy that was dragged from his truck and a protester smashed a concrete block onto his head and then danced a jig around the severely injured man?
About ten years ago I had a similar problem. My phone service provider was also an ISP. I was assured their number would be a local call. It wasn't and I got a $750 long distance bill. My son was home studying for his bar exam. I siced him on them. Soon after I got a check for $750. Then I also got a $750 credit on my phone bill.
I visit climate change web sites to keep up with trends. The newest are coercion and WW II scale mobilization. The conscious seems to be a Soviet style collectivization will be necessary to stop people from selfishly destroying the environment. I do hope you stream your confrontation with those Baltimore rioters when you tell them they are being sent back to the plantation.
Oh yeah, having an AC full of toxic ammonia and explosive butane right next to your house is an excellent idea. Those units are fine if they are small (RV fridge) or large (hundred thousand sq ft warehouse.)
Now that HFCs are considered greenhouse gasses more environmental friendly (if not people friendly) processes may be mandated. You may get your wish.
I still have my ZX 81. I wrote an accounting program to track expenses on my 300 acre farm. I had no trouble loading the tape every month. All my entries were stored in variables. I could print reports sorted by month, vendor, or category on a 4 inch thermal printer. I used it for three years until I got a TRS-80 Model 4P in 1984. I used that for 10 years until it died.
How can you have a free labor market when the supply of workers is restricted by government support programs. People who live in section 8 housing, have an EBT card and get a welfare check are not going travel up and down the East coast all summer harvesting produce.
Then you have illegal immigrants allowed in who drive down the wages to those citizens who want to do migrant labor. The government is restricting the labor supply on one hand and flooding it on the other. Both which are detrimental to the country. Marginalized Blacks in the cities and exploited Hispanics in the country. Both groups overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Maybe that is the plan.
I guess you were lucky, your step daughter could do the work. My learning disabled daughter is unable to do math. Two years of my tutoring resulted in a lot of tear stained failed tests. While very intelligent with As and Bs in all her other classes she would be denied a diploma without passing the FCAT. Fortunately Florida allows remedial students unlimited attempts to pass each section of the test. A student with a good memory can eventually get a passing grade. She then went to a trade school and has a good job.
Deserts are ideal places to grow most crops. Abundant sunlight and low humidity prevents molds and blight. Few plants outside the watered areas to harbor insects. No excess rainfall to leach away your expensive fertilizers and drown your plants.
I have farmed spring potatoes in Florida. Seed pieces washed out of the ground by heavy rainfall. Seed pieces rotting in water soaked soil. Trying to harvest the crop from a muddy field is akin to being sent to Devil's Island.
If you have a representative government change the laws. If your elected officials answer to special interest elect ones who don't. I know, lost cause, shut up and pay up.
Most positions only require a competent person, not the highest qualified. You can't hire the best qualified person without considering their interaction with their new co-workers. If you force a strident feminist into a shop of male jocks your productivity will go to hell. If you want to make money you do not engage in social engineering.
With government jobs you don't have to make money or actually achieve your purpose (such as giving children an education) so you can social engineer to your hearts content.
My power cost $.10 a KWh. I average 1000 KWh a month now. Replacing my dead 3.5 ton central AC with window units saved me $50 a month. Painting my roof white saved a few of those dollars. Replacing my energy inefficient (but paid for) mobile home with a new house would cost $150,000. No thanks, I'm good, also poor so it's not happening anyway.
OK, banks are all about money. They know when and how much I deposit. What would prevent a bank from making a transaction report for me when I deposited the 4000 dollars? That way their customer (me) doesn't get into trouble. Are they not allowed? I have to keep track of my deposits and request a report myself? Shouldn't the teller inform me that I am over the reporting limit and the IRS might seize my money?
This is an ongoing subject. According to some other poster it cost x amount of dollars to run a cab. A taxi can't run at a loss so the more taxis there are the less riders per taxi means higher fares to keep all those cabs running. That million dollar medallion might have something to do with cost though.
Most women are satisfied with the salary they are offered, that is part of the problem. Why negotiate for more when you are satisfied. Women are easier to satisfy (with pay anyway) then men. They drag the average down.
Ah, but watching a video of someone replacing the brakes on a 74 Maverick would be much better than pulling off both back brakes and then not being able to figure out how to get the parking brake mechanism back together.
Without eminent domain most roads and transmission lines would be imposable or ruinously expensive to build. That one pass you need to go through is owned by a man who's great grand pappy is buried there and he wont move. Going around that mountain is going to cost you. What we have mostly works, when it doesn't, that's what courts are for. Broadband internet has become a needed utility. All but the most isolated should have affordable access.
I have adult children in several cities and one in college. With Facebook I can keep up with their lives. I got a smartphone for my invalid mother-in-law. It brightens her day to see new photos of her newest great grandchild.
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They should have done what Kwik Loc did. They make the machine (and more impotently) the plastic tabs used to close produce bags and bread wrappers. They trademarked the shape of the tab and no other shape will work in their machine, no DRM needed.
Farmers grow corn to sell to ranchers who sell beef to anyone who wants to buy it. Forcing people not to sell beef will not feed anyone, the farmers will simply plant less corn. The gleaming, Apple store solar powered world you envision is impossible. The dirty real horsepower world of 1840 is much more likely.
Not to say climate change isn't happening, it just isn't that much of a problem now. Some have postulated a WW II sized mobilization will be necessary to fight climate change. In 1940 England was in imminent danger of being invaded but the military had to draft people who wouldn't fight otherwise. A climate draft will be necessary. I already live on a farm. I hope you like heat and bugs.
I don't imagine I would have any trouble. Of course I am an old white guy and by the time I figured out how to take a video with my phone the action would be over. Also my son is a lawyer and a best friend's son is a county judge. YMMV
Disability is a hard thing to prove. If after walking down to the mailbox I collapse in front yard how can you prove I'm not faking?
I remember in the 50's sometimes the workers picking up potatoes in my father's field would bring their children with them. There was usually a teen girl watching the babies. Modern farming methods eliminated millions of jobs.
As productivity has increased the need for workers has greatly diminished. Securing the border and bringing manufacturing back will still not supply enough jobs. There is no simple solution. Supposedly the oil is going to run out and the economy crash so no one will be worrying about welfare or disability.
I watch home improvement shows. Often the electrician will come in and install a bigger breaker box. I always want to know where the extra wire length comes from. Every box I have ever been in ( quite a few, I was an industrial electrician) has no extra wire. When a building is wired the electrical installer takes the slack out each wire he is hooking up and snips it off. Most panels have wires entering from the top and bottom so moving the box wont get you any slack.
I had a co-worker who would leave an extra loop of wire for each circuit, that way if you had a breaker burn out you could cut the wire back. This made for a very stuffed box but he meticulously routed and zip tied each line. He was a trained aircraft electrician.
The main reason I didn't go to college was I hated to write and couldn't spell. This was 1970 when not going to college meant you got drafted and I was. I too am left handed. I took some college courses in 1997. With the internet and Word on my computer writing reports was fun. I also found out C++ programming was boring and went back to my automated packaging machine tech job.
You did watch the Rodny King riots. Do you remember the white guy that was dragged from his truck and a protester smashed a concrete block onto his head and then danced a jig around the severely injured man?
About ten years ago I had a similar problem. My phone service provider was also an ISP. I was assured their number would be a local call. It wasn't and I got a $750 long distance bill. My son was home studying for his bar exam. I siced him on them. Soon after I got a check for $750. Then I also got a $750 credit on my phone bill.
You left out gut. Republicans spew disinformation and then they gut programs.
I visit climate change web sites to keep up with trends. The newest are coercion and WW II scale mobilization. The conscious seems to be a Soviet style collectivization will be necessary to stop people from selfishly destroying the environment. I do hope you stream your confrontation with those Baltimore rioters when you tell them they are being sent back to the plantation.
Oh yeah, having an AC full of toxic ammonia and explosive butane right next to your house is an excellent idea. Those units are fine if they are small (RV fridge) or large (hundred thousand sq ft warehouse.)
Now that HFCs are considered greenhouse gasses more environmental friendly (if not people friendly) processes may be mandated. You may get your wish.
I still have my ZX 81. I wrote an accounting program to track expenses on my 300 acre farm. I had no trouble loading the tape every month. All my entries were stored in variables. I could print reports sorted by month, vendor, or category on a 4 inch thermal printer. I used it for three years until I got a TRS-80 Model 4P in 1984. I used that for 10 years until it died.
How can you have a free labor market when the supply of workers is restricted by government support programs. People who live in section 8 housing, have an EBT card and get a welfare check are not going travel up and down the East coast all summer harvesting produce.
Then you have illegal immigrants allowed in who drive down the wages to those citizens who want to do migrant labor. The government is restricting the labor supply on one hand and flooding it on the other. Both which are detrimental to the country. Marginalized Blacks in the cities and exploited Hispanics in the country. Both groups overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Maybe that is the plan.
I guess you were lucky, your step daughter could do the work. My learning disabled daughter is unable to do math. Two years of my tutoring resulted in a lot of tear stained failed tests. While very intelligent with As and Bs in all her other classes she would be denied a diploma without passing the FCAT. Fortunately Florida allows remedial students unlimited attempts to pass each section of the test. A student with a good memory can eventually get a passing grade. She then went to a trade school and has a good job.
Deserts are ideal places to grow most crops. Abundant sunlight and low humidity prevents molds and blight. Few plants outside the watered areas to harbor insects. No excess rainfall to leach away your expensive fertilizers and drown your plants.
I have farmed spring potatoes in Florida. Seed pieces washed out of the ground by heavy rainfall. Seed pieces rotting in water soaked soil. Trying to harvest the crop from a muddy field is akin to being sent to Devil's Island.
If you have a representative government change the laws. If your elected officials answer to special interest elect ones who don't. I know, lost cause, shut up and pay up.
Most positions only require a competent person, not the highest qualified. You can't hire the best qualified person without considering their interaction with their new co-workers. If you force a strident feminist into a shop of male jocks your productivity will go to hell. If you want to make money you do not engage in social engineering.
With government jobs you don't have to make money or actually achieve your purpose (such as giving children an education) so you can social engineer to your hearts content.
My power cost $.10 a KWh. I average 1000 KWh a month now. Replacing my dead 3.5 ton central AC with window units saved me $50 a month. Painting my roof white saved a few of those dollars. Replacing my energy inefficient (but paid for) mobile home with a new house would cost $150,000. No thanks, I'm good, also poor so it's not happening anyway.
OK, banks are all about money. They know when and how much I deposit. What would prevent a bank from making a transaction report for me when I deposited the 4000 dollars? That way their customer (me) doesn't get into trouble. Are they not allowed? I have to keep track of my deposits and request a report myself? Shouldn't the teller inform me that I am over the reporting limit and the IRS might seize my money?
This is an ongoing subject. According to some other poster it cost x amount of dollars to run a cab. A taxi can't run at a loss so the more taxis there are the less riders per taxi means higher fares to keep all those cabs running. That million dollar medallion might have something to do with cost though.
Most women are satisfied with the salary they are offered, that is part of the problem. Why negotiate for more when you are satisfied. Women are easier to satisfy (with pay anyway) then men. They drag the average down.
Exactly who was it that bound us (US) to the WTO?
Ah, but watching a video of someone replacing the brakes on a 74 Maverick would be much better than pulling off both back brakes and then not being able to figure out how to get the parking brake mechanism back together.
Without eminent domain most roads and transmission lines would be imposable or ruinously expensive to build. That one pass you need to go through is owned by a man who's great grand pappy is buried there and he wont move. Going around that mountain is going to cost you. What we have mostly works, when it doesn't, that's what courts are for. Broadband internet has become a needed utility. All but the most isolated should have affordable access.
I have adult children in several cities and one in college. With Facebook I can keep up with their lives. I got a smartphone for my invalid mother-in-law. It brightens her day to see new photos of her newest great grandchild.