My son was a lawyer who negotiated cellphone tower land contracts. His contracts explicitly explained that the tower would be abandoned at the end of the lease and would be the responsibility of the land owner. At that time (ten years ago) no towers were being abandoned and the leases were being renegotiated but if the land owner did not renew the lease he did in fact own a tower.
So none of the millions of researchers in China and India can find these cures? Wouldn't countries that now have socialized healthcare benefit from cures? Why is it only the US that can do these things? The same goes for stem cell research, nothing can be developed because of America's abortion laws. For some reason aborted Russian, Japanese, and Chinese babies can't be used.
You can not defeat a small enemy when larger enemies keep feeding in men and materials. We couldn't defeat North Korea because China and Russia sent men and supplies, the same with North Vietnam. Iran and Russia supply insurgents in Iraq plus religious factions fight each other. There can be no victory under those situations.
After the Nazi hierarchy was eliminated the German army surrendered. The few holdouts had no one supplying them. The Japanese people would have fought to the last man, woman, and child but the Emperor told them to stop.
From TFA "In 2016, exam questions were reportedly leaked online and authorities were dissatisfied with a less stringent attempt to limit social media during the 2017 exams." Students are not cheating during the exam, some are posting the questions after they have taken the test so future test takers can cheat.
Millions of us in the South heat with electricity, either with resistance coil space heaters or heat pumps. Watch the reality show "Life Below Zero" about Alaskans who live near or above the Arctic circle. One town has some small wind turbines and I guess diesel generators and the homes are heated with electric space heaters.
Most of the time in the South it is coldest after a front comes through with clear skys, perfect for solar panels. In the far North the wind blows the most when it is the coldest.
So no one actually believes we should eliminate fossil fuels? Why not start the transition by moving the long term unemployed to sustainable Eco-villages? People would live in highly efficient small homes powered by renewables. They would grow most of their own food on small plots within walking distance of where they live. Why retrain people for jobs that will not be needed in the future?
If we are going to spend that kind of money let's spend it winding down the current consumer economy, not propping it up. I grew up on a small farm in the 50's, it was a pleasant experience. Just keep air conditioning and the Internet and don't make us old people work too hard and I wont complain. Actually I already have my own food plot and collect a government check so I'm good. Plenty of room for some Eco-villages and don't forget the high speed internet.
I an American who was drafted, I had gone into the family business instead of college so didn't have a deferment. The solider administering the test told us doing well on the test optional, we were going into the Army no matter what our scores were but doing well meant getting a better position. For me it turned out better than that. A few days before I was supposed to go to Army boot-camp I got a call from a Navy recruiter. My scores qualified me for one of the Navy's "A" schools. They had a special reserve program that after six months of Navy boot camp and the "A" school I would not have to serve any other active duty and just go to reserve drills once a month so I did that.
They almost got me for six years anyway. I did so well in Machinist mate "A" school I was offered a chance to attend the Navy's nuclear power school. The catch was four years of service after the two year school. I had a wife, a young daughter, and wanted to go back to the farm. The wife left me after a few years, the daughter grew up and moved away, and I lost the farm. I guess I should have took that chance.
For now you have the privacy to drive a car with no insurance, whoever you hit has to have uninsured motorist coverage. You have the privacy to drive with a suspended license, even if you have had five DWI's. You have the privacy to clone a tag and have some stranger in another state get all your parking tickets.
If a job is a job is a job, why are you not working for Walmart? You must have some idea how wealth is created and know that flipping burgers is not how.
And what about national security? How easy would it be to sever a natural gas pipe line? They run through miles and miles of empty country. Fifteen minutes with an excavator and a little C4 could shut down a entire state's supply. With a coal or nuclear plant only the plant grounds themselves have to be guarded.
I suppose you think we do not need a farm bill either? So 90% of farmers go broke, someone will always pony up the $billions needed to plant those millions of acres. Grain surpluses are over rated, who cares if the silos all run dry, Argentina always has plenty to sell.
The police do not have to kill someone who "might' have a gun or sometimes even a person with a gun. I saw a video of a white man who was trying to commit suicide by cop. He was threatening to shoot himself. He was in his front yard and the house was surrounded by cops. The cop were all far back and behind cover. The man then pointed his gun out at the police and opened fire, so did the police. When they all ran out of ammunition the guy was still standing there with an empty gun. One cop simply walked up, took his gun away and arrested him. I can not believe thirty cops all missed, they had to have been shooting into the ground. Of course they must have been planing that and did not station a sniper.
Why kill? Ask the parents of Cody M. Harter why. His killer served 15 years of a 35 year sentence for MURDER. If they are executed they can not get out and kill again.
California needs the other 47 more the we need it. Put tariffs on all its exports, charge out the wazoo for its water imports. No more Navy, Army, and Air Force bases. They can fund their own Coast Guard. Then see how well they do.
We are a nation, each state and its population contribute to the nation's strength. California's geography and location help produce most of its income, their desire for socialism has to include the rest of the nation.
If by farmers you mean the guys who grow most food crops is business as usual. Corn, soybeans, potatoes, wheat, sweet potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, and most vegetables self pollinate. Most fruits and nuts do need pollinators so it is best to keep bee populations healthy.
I guess none of these people ever worked outside in the summer or were in the Navy. Temperatures in the engine room of the WWII era destroyer I was on easily reached 110 degrees F. It was 10 degrees hotter in the boiler rooms. I do not remember anyone collapsing, much less dying.
As a farm owner in the South I have worked under a pole barn with the thermometer at 104 F all day. You just drink plenty of water and keep going.
How about replacing the fuel pump on a 1998 Chevrolet pickup. Or maybe repair the transmission on a 1988 Ford Aerostar? Could be just the torque specs for the harmonic balancer on a Ford 4.6. Watching someone actually do every step of a complicated job you have never done before is invaluable. Some expensive and hard to replace parts are easily broken if you pull or twist them the wrong way.
Ordering replacement parts is now a dream. I am sixty five, I can not imagine life now without the Internet. Years ago to repair a car you had to buy an expensive manual then try to understand what you needed to do from a few small black and whiter photos. You had to drive to an auto parts store and pay whatever they charged for the part. Now I can watch a video, see what I need and search for the best prices.
I can not get cable Internet but yet here I am. If you can see the sky you too can have a form of broadband. Eighty dollars a month gets me 50 GiB of supposedly 30 Mb satellite Internet service. Hughes Net does throttle YouTube but with a little buffering I can watch them. My Firestick works fine, as long as I don't stream more than an hour and a half a day.
Some rules are vague and depend on common sense, which is often not common. While not at a cross walk my experience did involve human judgment. I was doing the speed limit (55 mph) on a state road when I noticed a school bus approaching and a woman standing in a driveway to my right. I started slowing and noticed the bus was slowing farther back so I assumed the driver was going to let me by before putting on her stop lights. She did turn on the yellow flashers and when she did this the mother jumped out in front of me, I was just able to avoid hitting her, only then did the driver put out the stop sign and turn on the red lights before slowing to a stop. The mother started screaming that I was going to run over her child, who at the time was on a moving bus. I sat there taking her abuse until the child got off the bus and she then hurried the child off the road still screaming at me. I fully expected her to take down my tag number and call the law but thankfully she didn't.
To be sure I just looked up the law and you are required to stop for a bus with the stop sign displayed and the red lights flashing, nothing about the yellow lights. Pedestrians could do the same thing, if I get ready to cross a street and see one car coming I hang back for a few seconds so it can go on by.
You must be young. I was 55 when I got a job that required a 10 hour day and started at 6:00 AM. It was an hour commute and I car pooled with someone who wanted to get to work 30 minutes early which meant I had to get up at 4:00 AM. After 15 months I was getting three or four hours a night of sleep and became psychotic and suicidal. I also could not stay awake at work so I had to quit. After two years of going to doctors and not being able to work I was cleared for SS disability.
That was 10 years ago. Some weeks I can sleep at night but mostly I have to wait until after sun rise to get to sleep. My wife works the afternoon shift as a nurse and doesn't get home until midnight. This reinforces staying up all night.
My father in law had the opposite experience while turning left on a country road. The road was not busy but the oncoming car was closer then he thought so he just punched it straight across. The woman in the car saw him but instead of braking she veered left to go around him. He was off the road on the other side when she hit him. She was cited for not maintaining her lane.
Years ago when I was a young and strong farmer we used fertilizer that was shipped in 100 lb bags. I would load the spreader with 10 bags and rest while my dad drove through the field applying it. With nothing to do I read the analysis label. One part listed the nitrogen source, municipal waste. There was still bits of paper and plastic mixed in. I would hope it had been sterilized.
Becoming physically unable to write is even worse. I am left handed and developed carpel tunnel and numbness in that hand, not from writing but from decades of holding vibrating farm tractor steering wheels. An operation stopped the pain but the numbness remains.
Most do not know how wealth is created. Hollywood does not create any wealth, the NFL, NBA, and MLB do not either. Government surely does not create any, but, it keeps order and using taxes wrests money away from wealth producers so there is money circulating around so the entertainers and service people can pay each other.
Do you want to create jobs, limit farm tractors to thirty horse power and eliminate herbicides. Eliminate tractors completely and go back to horses, there wont be any unemployed Americans or Mexicans.
Group insurance was the cause of our current system by separating buyer and provider. Government got involved but only in ways that increased costs. If everyone else is doing something a better and cheaper way you than you should entertain the though that you might be wrong.
Medicare and Medicaid are single payer but 10% of the cost is due to fraud. Single payer will only work with single provider, doctors are government employees and are on salary. Government owns and operates the medical facilities and testing labs. I needed a CAT scan, there are three places in my small town that provide them. My doctor uses a facility in a town 30 miles away. After driving there and parking I walked past one imaging center to a different one a few doors down where I was the only patient. In who's world does this make sense?
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My son was a lawyer who negotiated cellphone tower land contracts. His contracts explicitly explained that the tower would be abandoned at the end of the lease and would be the responsibility of the land owner. At that time (ten years ago) no towers were being abandoned and the leases were being renegotiated but if the land owner did not renew the lease he did in fact own a tower.
So none of the millions of researchers in China and India can find these cures? Wouldn't countries that now have socialized healthcare benefit from cures? Why is it only the US that can do these things? The same goes for stem cell research, nothing can be developed because of America's abortion laws. For some reason aborted Russian, Japanese, and Chinese babies can't be used.
You can not defeat a small enemy when larger enemies keep feeding in men and materials. We couldn't defeat North Korea because China and Russia sent men and supplies, the same with North Vietnam. Iran and Russia supply insurgents in Iraq plus religious factions fight each other. There can be no victory under those situations.
After the Nazi hierarchy was eliminated the German army surrendered. The few holdouts had no one supplying them. The Japanese people would have fought to the last man, woman, and child but the Emperor told them to stop.
From TFA "In 2016, exam questions were reportedly leaked online and authorities were dissatisfied with a less stringent attempt to limit social media during the 2017 exams." Students are not cheating during the exam, some are posting the questions after they have taken the test so future test takers can cheat.
Millions of us in the South heat with electricity, either with resistance coil space heaters or heat pumps. Watch the reality show "Life Below Zero" about Alaskans who live near or above the Arctic circle. One town has some small wind turbines and I guess diesel generators and the homes are heated with electric space heaters.
Most of the time in the South it is coldest after a front comes through with clear skys, perfect for solar panels. In the far North the wind blows the most when it is the coldest.
So no one actually believes we should eliminate fossil fuels? Why not start the transition by moving the long term unemployed to sustainable Eco-villages? People would live in highly efficient small homes powered by renewables. They would grow most of their own food on small plots within walking distance of where they live. Why retrain people for jobs that will not be needed in the future?
If we are going to spend that kind of money let's spend it winding down the current consumer economy, not propping it up. I grew up on a small farm in the 50's, it was a pleasant experience. Just keep air conditioning and the Internet and don't make us old people work too hard and I wont complain. Actually I already have my own food plot and collect a government check so I'm good. Plenty of room for some Eco-villages and don't forget the high speed internet.
I an American who was drafted, I had gone into the family business instead of college so didn't have a deferment. The solider administering the test told us doing well on the test optional, we were going into the Army no matter what our scores were but doing well meant getting a better position. For me it turned out better than that. A few days before I was supposed to go to Army boot-camp I got a call from a Navy recruiter. My scores qualified me for one of the Navy's "A" schools. They had a special reserve program that after six months of Navy boot camp and the "A" school I would not have to serve any other active duty and just go to reserve drills once a month so I did that.
They almost got me for six years anyway. I did so well in Machinist mate "A" school I was offered a chance to attend the Navy's nuclear power school. The catch was four years of service after the two year school. I had a wife, a young daughter, and wanted to go back to the farm. The wife left me after a few years, the daughter grew up and moved away, and I lost the farm. I guess I should have took that chance.
For now you have the privacy to drive a car with no insurance, whoever you hit has to have uninsured motorist coverage. You have the privacy to drive with a suspended license, even if you have had five DWI's. You have the privacy to clone a tag and have some stranger in another state get all your parking tickets.
If a job is a job is a job, why are you not working for Walmart? You must have some idea how wealth is created and know that flipping burgers is not how.
And what about national security? How easy would it be to sever a natural gas pipe line? They run through miles and miles of empty country. Fifteen minutes with an excavator and a little C4 could shut down a entire state's supply. With a coal or nuclear plant only the plant grounds themselves have to be guarded.
I suppose you think we do not need a farm bill either? So 90% of farmers go broke, someone will always pony up the $billions needed to plant those millions of acres. Grain surpluses are over rated, who cares if the silos all run dry, Argentina always has plenty to sell.
The police do not have to kill someone who "might' have a gun or sometimes even a person with a gun. I saw a video of a white man who was trying to commit suicide by cop. He was threatening to shoot himself. He was in his front yard and the house was surrounded by cops. The cop were all far back and behind cover. The man then pointed his gun out at the police and opened fire, so did the police. When they all ran out of ammunition the guy was still standing there with an empty gun. One cop simply walked up, took his gun away and arrested him. I can not believe thirty cops all missed, they had to have been shooting into the ground. Of course they must have been planing that and did not station a sniper.
Buffalo Wild Wings, the mild was too hot for me.
Why kill? Ask the parents of Cody M. Harter why. His killer served 15 years of a 35 year sentence for MURDER. If they are executed they can not get out and kill again.
California needs the other 47 more the we need it. Put tariffs on all its exports, charge out the wazoo for its water imports. No more Navy, Army, and Air Force bases. They can fund their own Coast Guard. Then see how well they do.
We are a nation, each state and its population contribute to the nation's strength. California's geography and location help produce most of its income, their desire for socialism has to include the rest of the nation.
I enjoyed it, bless you.
If by farmers you mean the guys who grow most food crops is business as usual. Corn, soybeans, potatoes, wheat, sweet potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, and most vegetables self pollinate. Most fruits and nuts do need pollinators so it is best to keep bee populations healthy.
I guess none of these people ever worked outside in the summer or were in the Navy. Temperatures in the engine room of the WWII era destroyer I was on easily reached 110 degrees F. It was 10 degrees hotter in the boiler rooms. I do not remember anyone collapsing, much less dying.
As a farm owner in the South I have worked under a pole barn with the thermometer at 104 F all day. You just drink plenty of water and keep going.
How about replacing the fuel pump on a 1998 Chevrolet pickup. Or maybe repair the transmission on a 1988 Ford Aerostar? Could be just the torque specs for the harmonic balancer on a Ford 4.6. Watching someone actually do every step of a complicated job you have never done before is invaluable. Some expensive and hard to replace parts are easily broken if you pull or twist them the wrong way.
Ordering replacement parts is now a dream. I am sixty five, I can not imagine life now without the Internet. Years ago to repair a car you had to buy an expensive manual then try to understand what you needed to do from a few small black and whiter photos. You had to drive to an auto parts store and pay whatever they charged for the part. Now I can watch a video, see what I need and search for the best prices.
I can not get cable Internet but yet here I am. If you can see the sky you too can have a form of broadband. Eighty dollars a month gets me 50 GiB of supposedly 30 Mb satellite Internet service. Hughes Net does throttle YouTube but with a little buffering I can watch them. My Firestick works fine, as long as I don't stream more than an hour and a half a day.
Some rules are vague and depend on common sense, which is often not common. While not at a cross walk my experience did involve human judgment. I was doing the speed limit (55 mph) on a state road when I noticed a school bus approaching and a woman standing in a driveway to my right. I started slowing and noticed the bus was slowing farther back so I assumed the driver was going to let me by before putting on her stop lights. She did turn on the yellow flashers and when she did this the mother jumped out in front of me, I was just able to avoid hitting her, only then did the driver put out the stop sign and turn on the red lights before slowing to a stop. The mother started screaming that I was going to run over her child, who at the time was on a moving bus. I sat there taking her abuse until the child got off the bus and she then hurried the child off the road still screaming at me. I fully expected her to take down my tag number and call the law but thankfully she didn't.
To be sure I just looked up the law and you are required to stop for a bus with the stop sign displayed and the red lights flashing, nothing about the yellow lights. Pedestrians could do the same thing, if I get ready to cross a street and see one car coming I hang back for a few seconds so it can go on by.
You must be young. I was 55 when I got a job that required a 10 hour day and started at 6:00 AM. It was an hour commute and I car pooled with someone who wanted to get to work 30 minutes early which meant I had to get up at 4:00 AM. After 15 months I was getting three or four hours a night of sleep and became psychotic and suicidal. I also could not stay awake at work so I had to quit. After two years of going to doctors and not being able to work I was cleared for SS disability. That was 10 years ago. Some weeks I can sleep at night but mostly I have to wait until after sun rise to get to sleep. My wife works the afternoon shift as a nurse and doesn't get home until midnight. This reinforces staying up all night.
My father in law had the opposite experience while turning left on a country road. The road was not busy but the oncoming car was closer then he thought so he just punched it straight across. The woman in the car saw him but instead of braking she veered left to go around him. He was off the road on the other side when she hit him. She was cited for not maintaining her lane.
Years ago when I was a young and strong farmer we used fertilizer that was shipped in 100 lb bags. I would load the spreader with 10 bags and rest while my dad drove through the field applying it. With nothing to do I read the analysis label. One part listed the nitrogen source, municipal waste. There was still bits of paper and plastic mixed in. I would hope it had been sterilized.
Becoming physically unable to write is even worse. I am left handed and developed carpel tunnel and numbness in that hand, not from writing but from decades of holding vibrating farm tractor steering wheels. An operation stopped the pain but the numbness remains.
Most do not know how wealth is created. Hollywood does not create any wealth, the NFL, NBA, and MLB do not either. Government surely does not create any, but, it keeps order and using taxes wrests money away from wealth producers so there is money circulating around so the entertainers and service people can pay each other.
Do you want to create jobs, limit farm tractors to thirty horse power and eliminate herbicides. Eliminate tractors completely and go back to horses, there wont be any unemployed Americans or Mexicans.
Group insurance was the cause of our current system by separating buyer and provider. Government got involved but only in ways that increased costs. If everyone else is doing something a better and cheaper way you than you should entertain the though that you might be wrong.
Medicare and Medicaid are single payer but 10% of the cost is due to fraud. Single payer will only work with single provider, doctors are government employees and are on salary. Government owns and operates the medical facilities and testing labs. I needed a CAT scan, there are three places in my small town that provide them. My doctor uses a facility in a town 30 miles away. After driving there and parking I walked past one imaging center to a different one a few doors down where I was the only patient. In who's world does this make sense?