The minimum charge is about $10 a month. Just auto pay the bill. I live in Florida and that is what FPL charged for each of irrigation pumps I didn't run for six months a year. A residential connection may have a higher minimum.
People have been doing a wonderful job of saving African children. The population climbed from 250 million to 1 billion in the last 60 years. The more you save, there's that much many more to save next time.
You are right about most of that. My 68 Impala had a very soft suspension. It made a great dirt road car. At 130 mph it did feel "floaty" but at 75 it handled great. It weighed 3750 lbs, 100 lbs LESS than a 2014 Impala. With manual drum brakes it took forever to stop that thing.
No love for DLPs? I almost cried when my 8 year old 61" Samsung died a few months ago. It delivered a sharp, bright picture and movies on it were theater quality. My son knew I couldn't afford to buy another TV so he gave me his one year old 55" Samsung 3D LCD TV (He's such a good boy). He had seen the reviews and wanted to buy a Panasonic plasma. Now I know why he wanted to get rid of the LCD. Everything has a whitish blur to it. Movies looked like a 70s soap opera. It took weeks of searching to find out how to turn movie mode on. After that all the individual brightness, contrast, etc settings have to be tweaked but the white blur is still noticeable.
Free is good but I just wish I had thought to buy a new light engine for the DLP and put it in storage while they still made them.
I was, it was sad, and no one was jealous of me. I had to put an engagement ring on my first girlfriends finger before we had sex. Before then I had no luck with girls, even my date for senior prom flung open the car door and bolted into her house as soon as I pulled back into her parents driveway. I muddled through a first marriage but my second wife and I will calibrate our 28th anniversary in two weeks. She's an artist and can barely work the TV remote. She needs me:)
Been driving since 1966. American cars with locking ignition switches only lock if the shift lever is in Park. In any gear or neutral the motor will stop but steering wheel still turns and you can't remove the key. Shifting to Park removes the block and the switch can then be rotated to the locked position and the key removed. In high mileage cars the block may be worn enough to lock in gear.
From what I understand involving the UN limits the liability of any nation that tries to divert an asteroid and it hits the Earth anyway. Whoever it then hits (if anyone is left) could sue claiming that they wouldn't have been hit if the asteroid's trajectory hadn't been altered.
The US has high cost broadband but legislators are fairly cheap. Most are owned by a cable company or a teleco. If a municipality wants to instal their own system AT&T tells the state legislators that providing phone and internet has so little profit that without the income from that municipality AT&T will have to stop providing service to the entire state. The state sues the municipality and the state police make sure no equipment rolls.
The federal government paid AT&T to run fiber past my house three miles to the end of the road. It didn't pay them to hook up the twenty houses that have telephone service. The CO is too antiquated to support DSL so we don't have that either. Cable and DSL service ends 1 mile up the road from my house.
Of course a reasonable person takes into account the risk of pollution and the observable effects of pollution. We also have to deal with unreasonable people. Strip mining in Wyoming has little effect on me in Florida. What effect does it have on people in Wyoming? The coal fired plant five miles from my house is undetectable no matter which way the wind blows, unlike the paper mill that is the pride of the city. Guess which one the county is shutting down when its license comes up for renewal in a few years. As an ex-Navy man if I would live and work for months a few hundred feet from a reactor why should a nuke plant ten miles away bother me.
I still think we will get fairy power before half our current (ha) current needs are met with wind,solar, geo or tidal power. Wind kills birds and towers are ugly. Thousands of sq miles covered with panels, really? Geo, more of those holes in the Earth. Tidal? The fish, whales, ocean currents themselves altered. Reasonable people will come to a consensus on the best plan. Unreasonable people's minds are made up. And you left out cost. I don't work and can do this all day. I did paint my roof white, put in extra insulation, and traded my central AC for room units. That reduced my electric usage by 25% (500 kWh a month). What have you done?
More natural gas? Fracking pollutes ground water. Nuclear power? Can you say Fukushima? More hydro? What about the salmon? Those fairies better start peddling.
I see from your detailed response you have strong feelings about this subject. My son has a managing position in the legal department of a German company that is a direct competitor to GE. Trade treaties are signed to insure fair trade practices are enforced. It just seems that the fate of the average factory worker was overlooked.
Almost 20% of Antigua's GDP is trade with the US. They don't have to obey our laws, we don't have to buy their stuff. Trade war, bring it on. The US hasn't won a war in seventy years but I think we might win one with Antigua.
I remember this guy who said something about bankrupting coal fired plants. You may have heard of him, he even has this wonderful plan to give everyone affordable health care named after him. Is he still around?
The US can control many other nations through our ports. If you don't respect our IP laws, your stuff is not unloaded. The dollar may not be worth what it used to but everyone still wants to sell us stuff.
Really good rant you got going on there. Where do I start? People owe trillions on their credit cards and can't buy anything so the economy is tanking. Seems like whatever they SPENT those trillions on didn't help much so why would spending trillions more help. Poor people can't grow an economy? Worked pretty good for China. How did all those poor immigrants to America build a great nation when all they did was grow food, build houses, cloth themselves, and have babies?
Human labor creates wealth, The rich just collect a small amount from the labor of the masses, just like a beekeeper collects honey from a hive. They enjoy riches they themselves couldn't create. Most people create enough food and shelter for themselves and will gladly trade some of their overproduction for luxuries or entertainment. You get too much than you have to budget for an army to protect it.
For years stocks were traded as fast a clerk could write down the orders. Couldn't someone code a human clerk emulator program. Have real robots crowed around the big board, would be entertaining.
Then we have taxes. The rich have already collected some wealth, simply re leave them of about half of it. Money is power you know. Help the poor and middle class fund needed projects. They can pay some taxes too, not much, but it adds up.
I will leave welfare and education out of this rant reply.There are plenty of mistakes being mode on both sides.
A little pork makes everyone feel better. "The most expensive is the estimated $3 billion now going to fund a dam project on the Ohio River, âoeportions of which flow through Illinois and Kentucky, states represented by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky,â ABC News reported."
Don't know any truck drivers do you? All trucks have to get a fuel tax sticker from every state they drive through. They are usually stuck near the fuel fill cap on the driver's side. A cross country truck may have a dozen or more. You also have to show receipts for fuel bought in the state and pay a road use fee if you didn't buy enough.
No matter who pays soon it wont be enough. I have no insurance and pay about $50 a month for the doctor visit and one prescription I need. My mother in law has diabetes and also needs dialysis three times a week. That's not counting the month or two each year she spends in the intensive care unit. Eight years so far and five or six more, she's doing pretty good right now. Great for granny but how many $three hundred thousand a year patients can you (I'm disabled) afford to support.
Medicare and Medicaid are single payer. Over 10% of the budget goes to fraud. Wouldn't total single payer be just as fraud ridden? The ACA just enriches the insurance companies. The exchange debacle seems custom made to make everyone HATE dealing with (and paying) insurance companies. Single payer will end all that. To eliminate the fraud we will have to go to single provider also. All doctors will be government employes and all hospitals government ran. Problem solved.
That, and the AMA limits the number of doctors. I had a childhood friend who is a premier pediatric plastic surgeon now. He almost quit medicine because he couldn't work the long hours residents are supposed to. He just needed more sleep than they would allow. Many do quit. Many more are turned away from school because seats are limited.
As long as the elements removed by the crop are replaced and disease organisms controlled monoculture can be practiced indefinitely. The field of poor Florida sand by my house has been planted in potatoes every year for almost a hundred years. Yields are four times what they were in the 1920s. For the last four years the farmer doubled cropped with corn being planted after the potatoes were harvested in May.
Has anyone published a comprehensive plan for world-wide replacement of fossil fuels? One that address the loss of the benefits of fossil fuels. Much of the quadrupling of the population of Africa in the last 50 years was fed by the over production of subsidized Western farms. A self impoverish West will not be sending food anywhere. India and China will not re-impoverish themselves, who is going to make them?
Posters on another thread voiced the dangers of a world wide economic collapse from an American debt default. The American money machine runs on oil, sun beams and unicorn farts will not power it.
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The minimum charge is about $10 a month. Just auto pay the bill. I live in Florida and that is what FPL charged for each of irrigation pumps I didn't run for six months a year. A residential connection may have a higher minimum.
People have been doing a wonderful job of saving African children. The population climbed from 250 million to 1 billion in the last 60 years. The more you save, there's that much many more to save next time.
You are right about most of that. My 68 Impala had a very soft suspension. It made a great dirt road car. At 130 mph it did feel "floaty" but at 75 it handled great. It weighed 3750 lbs, 100 lbs LESS than a 2014 Impala. With manual drum brakes it took forever to stop that thing.
Would a GPS HUD app on your smart phone be considered a monitor? Or hack a Garmin HUD adapter to project any smart phone screen shot?
No love for DLPs? I almost cried when my 8 year old 61" Samsung died a few months ago. It delivered a sharp, bright picture and movies on it were theater quality. My son knew I couldn't afford to buy another TV so he gave me his one year old 55" Samsung 3D LCD TV (He's such a good boy). He had seen the reviews and wanted to buy a Panasonic plasma. Now I know why he wanted to get rid of the LCD. Everything has a whitish blur to it. Movies looked like a 70s soap opera. It took weeks of searching to find out how to turn movie mode on. After that all the individual brightness, contrast, etc settings have to be tweaked but the white blur is still noticeable.
Free is good but I just wish I had thought to buy a new light engine for the DLP and put it in storage while they still made them.
I was, it was sad, and no one was jealous of me. I had to put an engagement ring on my first girlfriends finger before we had sex. Before then I had no luck with girls, even my date for senior prom flung open the car door and bolted into her house as soon as I pulled back into her parents driveway. I muddled through a first marriage but my second wife and I will calibrate our 28th anniversary in two weeks. She's an artist and can barely work the TV remote. She needs me :)
Been driving since 1966. American cars with locking ignition switches only lock if the shift lever is in Park. In any gear or neutral the motor will stop but steering wheel still turns and you can't remove the key. Shifting to Park removes the block and the switch can then be rotated to the locked position and the key removed. In high mileage cars the block may be worn enough to lock in gear.
Yes, you have to choose your battles. I'm sure there are "legal" ways the US can respond to protect US based businesses, ask Kim Dotcom.
From what I understand involving the UN limits the liability of any nation that tries to divert an asteroid and it hits the Earth anyway. Whoever it then hits (if anyone is left) could sue claiming that they wouldn't have been hit if the asteroid's trajectory hadn't been altered.
The US has high cost broadband but legislators are fairly cheap. Most are owned by a cable company or a teleco. If a municipality wants to instal their own system AT&T tells the state legislators that providing phone and internet has so little profit that without the income from that municipality AT&T will have to stop providing service to the entire state. The state sues the municipality and the state police make sure no equipment rolls.
The federal government paid AT&T to run fiber past my house three miles to the end of the road. It didn't pay them to hook up the twenty houses that have telephone service. The CO is too antiquated to support DSL so we don't have that either. Cable and DSL service ends 1 mile up the road from my house.
Of course a reasonable person takes into account the risk of pollution and the observable effects of pollution. We also have to deal with unreasonable people. Strip mining in Wyoming has little effect on me in Florida. What effect does it have on people in Wyoming? The coal fired plant five miles from my house is undetectable no matter which way the wind blows, unlike the paper mill that is the pride of the city. Guess which one the county is shutting down when its license comes up for renewal in a few years. As an ex-Navy man if I would live and work for months a few hundred feet from a reactor why should a nuke plant ten miles away bother me.
I still think we will get fairy power before half our current (ha) current needs are met with wind,solar, geo or tidal power. Wind kills birds and towers are ugly. Thousands of sq miles covered with panels, really? Geo, more of those holes in the Earth. Tidal? The fish, whales, ocean currents themselves altered. Reasonable people will come to a consensus on the best plan. Unreasonable people's minds are made up. And you left out cost. I don't work and can do this all day. I did paint my roof white, put in extra insulation, and traded my central AC for room units. That reduced my electric usage by 25% (500 kWh a month). What have you done?
More natural gas? Fracking pollutes ground water. Nuclear power? Can you say Fukushima? More hydro? What about the salmon? Those fairies better start peddling.
I see from your detailed response you have strong feelings about this subject. My son has a managing position in the legal department of a German company that is a direct competitor to GE. Trade treaties are signed to insure fair trade practices are enforced. It just seems that the fate of the average factory worker was overlooked.
Almost 20% of Antigua's GDP is trade with the US. They don't have to obey our laws, we don't have to buy their stuff. Trade war, bring it on. The US hasn't won a war in seventy years but I think we might win one with Antigua.
I remember this guy who said something about bankrupting coal fired plants. You may have heard of him, he even has this wonderful plan to give everyone affordable health care named after him. Is he still around?
The US can control many other nations through our ports. If you don't respect our IP laws, your stuff is not unloaded. The dollar may not be worth what it used to but everyone still wants to sell us stuff.
Really good rant you got going on there. Where do I start? People owe trillions on their credit cards and can't buy anything so the economy is tanking. Seems like whatever they SPENT those trillions on didn't help much so why would spending trillions more help. Poor people can't grow an economy? Worked pretty good for China. How did all those poor immigrants to America build a great nation when all they did was grow food, build houses, cloth themselves, and have babies?
Human labor creates wealth, The rich just collect a small amount from the labor of the masses, just like a beekeeper collects honey from a hive. They enjoy riches they themselves couldn't create. Most people create enough food and shelter for themselves and will gladly trade some of their overproduction for luxuries or entertainment. You get too much than you have to budget for an army to protect it.
For years stocks were traded as fast a clerk could write down the orders. Couldn't someone code a human clerk emulator program. Have real robots crowed around the big board, would be entertaining.
Then we have taxes. The rich have already collected some wealth, simply re leave them of about half of it. Money is power you know. Help the poor and middle class fund needed projects. They can pay some taxes too, not much, but it adds up.
I will leave welfare and education out of this rant reply.There are plenty of mistakes being mode on both sides.
A little pork makes everyone feel better. "The most expensive is the estimated $3 billion now going to fund a dam project on the Ohio River, âoeportions of which flow through Illinois and Kentucky, states represented by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky,â ABC News reported."
Don't know any truck drivers do you? All trucks have to get a fuel tax sticker from every state they drive through. They are usually stuck near the fuel fill cap on the driver's side. A cross country truck may have a dozen or more. You also have to show receipts for fuel bought in the state and pay a road use fee if you didn't buy enough.
I believe this was a NO bid contract. To a company with a record of failure. A Canadian company. There is some irony in here somewhere.
No matter who pays soon it wont be enough. I have no insurance and pay about $50 a month for the doctor visit and one prescription I need. My mother in law has diabetes and also needs dialysis three times a week. That's not counting the month or two each year she spends in the intensive care unit. Eight years so far and five or six more, she's doing pretty good right now. Great for granny but how many $three hundred thousand a year patients can you (I'm disabled) afford to support.
Medicare and Medicaid are single payer. Over 10% of the budget goes to fraud. Wouldn't total single payer be just as fraud ridden? The ACA just enriches the insurance companies. The exchange debacle seems custom made to make everyone HATE dealing with (and paying) insurance companies. Single payer will end all that. To eliminate the fraud we will have to go to single provider also. All doctors will be government employes and all hospitals government ran. Problem solved.
That, and the AMA limits the number of doctors. I had a childhood friend who is a premier pediatric plastic surgeon now. He almost quit medicine because he couldn't work the long hours residents are supposed to. He just needed more sleep than they would allow. Many do quit. Many more are turned away from school because seats are limited.
As long as the elements removed by the crop are replaced and disease organisms controlled monoculture can be practiced indefinitely. The field of poor Florida sand by my house has been planted in potatoes every year for almost a hundred years. Yields are four times what they were in the 1920s. For the last four years the farmer doubled cropped with corn being planted after the potatoes were harvested in May.
But what if you rent?
Has anyone published a comprehensive plan for world-wide replacement of fossil fuels? One that address the loss of the benefits of fossil fuels. Much of the quadrupling of the population of Africa in the last 50 years was fed by the over production of subsidized Western farms. A self impoverish West will not be sending food anywhere. India and China will not re-impoverish themselves, who is going to make them?
Posters on another thread voiced the dangers of a world wide economic collapse from an American debt default. The American money machine runs on oil, sun beams and unicorn farts will not power it.