Sometimes the insulation and conductor are incompatible. I had a 1986 John Deere tractor. In 1993 several wires of the same type disintegrated. The insulation crumbled away and the copper turned into blue dust. My other one of the same model a few years newer did not developed that problem.
I see others have discovered if you don't inhale the sneeze is pre-stifled. I can't totally close my throat so I have to pinch my nose anyway. I do find that the diaphragm spasm trying to inhale is painful and someone with brittle bones could fracture their ribs.
I have also pulled a back muscle sneezing while twisting my body to the side while sneezing. Being I am retired at home I just get my shoulders straight, hug my ribs, and let it go.
Always with the subsidies, mostly because you think any business not taxed into penury is somehow subsidized. And what about the benefits, has anyone calculated the vast amount of wealth created from the use of fossil fuels? Let us imagine fossil fuels were banned after WWII. No trade with China, windjammers don't carry much. No skyscrapers, without coal steel is too expensive. Half of the population would still be on the farm looking at the south end of a north bound mule. No aviation or satellite systems. Not even a steam punk world, the Earth's wood supply replacement is too slow. Paradise? I guess, if you think 1790 was the pinnacle of human existence.
No one was prescient enough to do that. Even now that it is abundantly clear we have to stop using fossil fuels immediately their use actually increases every year. The wars to keep the oil flowing are nothing compared to the wars that will be needed to stop it.
All this ignores the fight to reverse climate change. A green economy is a small economy. Most people will have to become farmers living in eco-villages and working communal land. There will be no consumer economy as few will have money or need much anyway. We can't afford the carbon dioxide released by the fossil fuels needed to build enough renewable power sources to replace what we use now so why try?
I started working on our small family farm 50 years ago, I can't do a full days work now but I could supervise. Would the world's governments be able to force such a system? Russia and China killed millions trying and failed but with the population understanding the need and no interference from other governments trying to subvert the change it could be done.
Using a UBI to sustain the current system is the stupidest thing a government could do. Paying people to change how they live would be the smart thing to do.
Better find a male doctor. Ten years ago at 55 I hurt all over and felt so depressed I had to quit work. I had been taking 1600 mg a day of ibuprofen. I told my female doctor I needed extra testosterone. Tests were done and she decided I was low but "within range". After eight years and another female doctor I finally was seen by a male doctor. It took him one minute to diagnose low testosterone. He explained I was on the low end but everone's reaction is different, I needed mid-range to function. Within minutes of the first shot I felt great, my depression was gone. I will not be taking anymore ibuprofen.
I think most people remember good feelings more than bad. Ten years ago at 55 I lost the ability to have sex and a year later desire to even leave home to go to work. I no longer had the ability or the need to do those things but I missed the good feeling those activities gave. Two years ago I was seen by a male doctor who diagnosed low testosterone,WOW! Life became good again.
I felt so good I tackled a strenuous home repair project and my back seized up. A CAT scan reviled three compressed discs in my back. The damage was the result of almost 40 years of farm work and operating heavy equipment. Now I feel like I can work but know I shouldn't. As for sex I do need that certain pill but trust me, a little sex is much better than none.
Many years ago read an article about older people being happier. They are either successful or at least have gotten used to failure. At 43 I lost my farm so I didn't feel successful and it took a long time to get used to it. OK, now I am used to it and guess what, I am happy. I enjoy the good things that I can see and do. My four children are happy and productive. My youngest daughter has a 16 month old girl, my only grandchild, we keep her once a week and she is a joy to be around.
I will say the OP was right, nothing wrong with working hard but take time to enjoy each day. I worked with my dad on our family farm and did find myself marred to it. I neglected my wife and family so much she left me. When I lost the farm ten years later that hurt more than the divorce. Women are easy to get, I remarried 11 months after she left, but million dollar farms you only get once.
While this was true in my area 40 years ago today hospitals pride themselves on short wait times. In Orlando one hospital has a large billboard by I-4 with a wait time clock displayed, usually it is 15 minutes or less. A Jacksonville hospital advertises wait time on the radio, again usually less then 15 minutes. The last three times I have taken my wife to our small town hospital emergency room she was the only patient.
Florida is in a building boom with much of it fueled by retirees who bring their Medicare money with them. States with declining populations are the ones that have long wait times.
US healthcare is far from a free market, laws and regulations greatly restrict availability and inflate costs. Healthcare providers must obtain an expensive education but admissions to medical schools are capped. The ability to practice is dependent on difficult to obtain licenses. I wouldn't say the government awarding patents to corporations for drugs and medical devices could be called a free market.
We already have single payer for part of the population. My wife went to nursing school for free at a state tech school. She also got $2400 cash for expenses. She is a home care provider for severely disabled children. Her employer is funded by Medicaid. I am retired and on Medicare. In my opinion all healthcare providers should get free education and be employed by the government and all citizens should be on Medicare. Might as well wish for peace in the Middle East, never happen.
Over one hundred million people in the Middle East depend on oil money for their food and water. Where will they go when we quit buying their oil? Without oil farmers will not have the fertilizers, pesticides, and tractor fuel to grow the amount of food they do today and no way to transport what they do grow. Billions of people who depend on that food to be delivered will starve. The world's economies will crash.
All this disaster happens the minute we stop pumping oil and the world's governments know it. All the loss of land and liberties you foresee with climate change will be necessary to relocate entire populations and provide the land and housing they will need to grow their own food to prevent it. It is much easier to ignore the climate change disaster that is seventy five years away. Basically we are screwed either way.
How many black people do you know? Most I know have an iPhone if they want one. Almost every small town has an AT&T store, guess what, they sell iPhones. Anyone with a smartphone plan can have one FedExed to their house. My wife went to nursing school at a tech school in our small town. Seven of the thirteen students in her class were black. Each semester all the students got an eight hundred grant. Most of the black girls came in the next day with new iPhones. Several complained later that they didn't have a computer to do the online assignments required. I got my wife a $400 laptop, a $178 Samsung phone, and did some car repairs.
Didn't have to switch, it just updated itself. Why do I use Firefox? The search bar. I use it to lookup words I need to spell or define. Whatever I type in there remains across tabs while things typed into the address bar disappear when that tab is closed.
57 moved a few icons but I did find them. It does seem faster and hasn't locked up so far. For a 65 year old casual user one browser is just as good as the next. Even if the search bar disappeared I don't think I would switch to Chrome or Opera for daily use. I do use them occasionally. I use Opera's VPN to hide my IP from Progressive web sites that have banned me. I use Chrome sometimes for web sites that won't display right with the custom settings I have on Firefox.
Because me and millions just like me. No internet cable or DSL available. Satellite internet is capped so streaming time is limited. Dish and Directv only choice for TV and often no broadcast signal either..
Environmental laws effect growers of non subsidy crops also. In my area farmers have to follow a fertilization plan that limits nitrogen amount per acre and the nitrogen type. They face fines and loss of pumping permits for their irrigation wells if the plan is not followed. No carrot, just stick.
So people have to spend more for energy, what happens to the people who's stuff and services they used to buy with that money? Either way fossil fuel use has to decrease so can renewables power the same amount of economic productivity? Actually they will have to produce more economic activity to make up for the increased costs.
What happens to China's economy if Americans can not afforded to by their stuff? We may need to get off fossil fuels to save the planet but everyone will have to understand that we all must live a much reduced lifestyle.
Lazy workers do not do nothing, just enough to not get fired. I never worked a union job but my father in law was senior employee for over a decade at a paper mill. The output from his machine dropped in half when he went off shift. He was a union man but those lazy guys did bother him. The union pay and benefits were great though. Before he retired he helped the programmer set up a new computer controlled paper towel machine. His son still works there and now they are putting in an even more sophisticated machine that eliminates five human operators. The union was eliminated when the plant was bought by a private company.
While visually stunning I can't suspend my disbelief of the premise. Why couldn't the replicants have a serial number encoded into their DNA? Why not simply take a photograph of each one before they were turned loose and use facial recognition to identify them?
How much do you spend eating out? How do you obtain free internet service? How old is your car? How much are your rent and property taxes? I have old cars with no payments. I don't eat out. My low end dwelling is payed for, property tax is $600 a year. I enjoy live college football. My physical condition limits my time out in the heat. $150 a month for my satellite TV and internet is a bargain.
The steering problem sounds fishy also. With two screws the ship reverses one of them and the ships veers to that side. I spent six years in destroyer engine rooms, we practiced that.
I'm retired and get to watch my wife get ready. She works nights as a nurse so it is a little different. Up at 7:00 pm. Fix coffee and a snack, eat while watching TV. Wander around looking for her glasses. Fix her face and hair. Try to find some clean scrubs. Watch a little more TV. Fix snacks and something to drink while at work. She is a pediatric home care nurse so no actual break time. She then packs her nursing bag, why it gets unpacked is beyond me. After she finds her keys and phone she leaves the house at 8:30.
When I worked I got up at 4:00 am, got dressed, ate breakfast, fixed my lunch and was out the door at 4:20.
I recall years ago reading a Sc-fi short story about life under a national health care system. Seems everyone had a small computer attached to their arms. You could only buy food in large government food stores. Now this was years before Walmart and iPhones, very prescient. The computer kept track every food purchase, balancing healthy choices with non-healthy. The subject of the story was trying to get lunch but the computer rejected every item he chose as not healthy enough. It then announced it would be 30 days before he could buy food again.
Far fetched back then but it could be now implemented tomorrow. Is this your plan to Make America Healthy Again?
Have you checked your parents equipment. I have Hughesnet's newest equipment with their top tier service, $89 a month for 50 GB at 15 Mb. I can stream movies on my computer or the Amazon Fire-stick on my TV with no buffering. Watching too many will reach the cap. I imagine your parents have an old system and a plan with a low cap and just spend most of the month at over cap limited speed.
I also have a cell booster with a directional antenna on a twenty ft mast outside my home. This allows my cell phones to work inside my home. Life in the country.
Wow, I spent most of my working life making $30,000 a year yet still helped four children get into collage. They got scholarships and loans but still I was able to give each one a decent car and keep the insurance up.
Sure, I live in a trailer, but I gave my children a good start. One teaches college, one is a lawyer, one is married and has her own house and a very adorable eleven month old daughter, and my youngest just graduated collage. I have 13 acres in a rural area. Many people work years to get a place like this, I'm already here.
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Sometimes the insulation and conductor are incompatible. I had a 1986 John Deere tractor. In 1993 several wires of the same type disintegrated. The insulation crumbled away and the copper turned into blue dust. My other one of the same model a few years newer did not developed that problem.
I see others have discovered if you don't inhale the sneeze is pre-stifled. I can't totally close my throat so I have to pinch my nose anyway. I do find that the diaphragm spasm trying to inhale is painful and someone with brittle bones could fracture their ribs.
I have also pulled a back muscle sneezing while twisting my body to the side while sneezing. Being I am retired at home I just get my shoulders straight, hug my ribs, and let it go.
Always with the subsidies, mostly because you think any business not taxed into penury is somehow subsidized. And what about the benefits, has anyone calculated the vast amount of wealth created from the use of fossil fuels? Let us imagine fossil fuels were banned after WWII. No trade with China, windjammers don't carry much. No skyscrapers, without coal steel is too expensive. Half of the population would still be on the farm looking at the south end of a north bound mule. No aviation or satellite systems. Not even a steam punk world, the Earth's wood supply replacement is too slow. Paradise? I guess, if you think 1790 was the pinnacle of human existence.
No one was prescient enough to do that. Even now that it is abundantly clear we have to stop using fossil fuels immediately their use actually increases every year. The wars to keep the oil flowing are nothing compared to the wars that will be needed to stop it.
All this ignores the fight to reverse climate change. A green economy is a small economy. Most people will have to become farmers living in eco-villages and working communal land. There will be no consumer economy as few will have money or need much anyway. We can't afford the carbon dioxide released by the fossil fuels needed to build enough renewable power sources to replace what we use now so why try?
I started working on our small family farm 50 years ago, I can't do a full days work now but I could supervise. Would the world's governments be able to force such a system? Russia and China killed millions trying and failed but with the population understanding the need and no interference from other governments trying to subvert the change it could be done.
Using a UBI to sustain the current system is the stupidest thing a government could do. Paying people to change how they live would be the smart thing to do.
Better find a male doctor. Ten years ago at 55 I hurt all over and felt so depressed I had to quit work. I had been taking 1600 mg a day of ibuprofen. I told my female doctor I needed extra testosterone. Tests were done and she decided I was low but "within range". After eight years and another female doctor I finally was seen by a male doctor. It took him one minute to diagnose low testosterone. He explained I was on the low end but everone's reaction is different, I needed mid-range to function. Within minutes of the first shot I felt great, my depression was gone. I will not be taking anymore ibuprofen.
I think most people remember good feelings more than bad. Ten years ago at 55 I lost the ability to have sex and a year later desire to even leave home to go to work. I no longer had the ability or the need to do those things but I missed the good feeling those activities gave. Two years ago I was seen by a male doctor who diagnosed low testosterone,WOW! Life became good again.
I felt so good I tackled a strenuous home repair project and my back seized up. A CAT scan reviled three compressed discs in my back. The damage was the result of almost 40 years of farm work and operating heavy equipment. Now I feel like I can work but know I shouldn't. As for sex I do need that certain pill but trust me, a little sex is much better than none.
Many years ago read an article about older people being happier. They are either successful or at least have gotten used to failure. At 43 I lost my farm so I didn't feel successful and it took a long time to get used to it. OK, now I am used to it and guess what, I am happy. I enjoy the good things that I can see and do. My four children are happy and productive. My youngest daughter has a 16 month old girl, my only grandchild, we keep her once a week and she is a joy to be around.
I will say the OP was right, nothing wrong with working hard but take time to enjoy each day. I worked with my dad on our family farm and did find myself marred to it. I neglected my wife and family so much she left me. When I lost the farm ten years later that hurt more than the divorce. Women are easy to get, I remarried 11 months after she left, but million dollar farms you only get once.
While this was true in my area 40 years ago today hospitals pride themselves on short wait times. In Orlando one hospital has a large billboard by I-4 with a wait time clock displayed, usually it is 15 minutes or less. A Jacksonville hospital advertises wait time on the radio, again usually less then 15 minutes. The last three times I have taken my wife to our small town hospital emergency room she was the only patient.
Florida is in a building boom with much of it fueled by retirees who bring their Medicare money with them. States with declining populations are the ones that have long wait times.
US healthcare is far from a free market, laws and regulations greatly restrict availability and inflate costs. Healthcare providers must obtain an expensive education but admissions to medical schools are capped. The ability to practice is dependent on difficult to obtain licenses. I wouldn't say the government awarding patents to corporations for drugs and medical devices could be called a free market.
We already have single payer for part of the population. My wife went to nursing school for free at a state tech school. She also got $2400 cash for expenses. She is a home care provider for severely disabled children. Her employer is funded by Medicaid. I am retired and on Medicare. In my opinion all healthcare providers should get free education and be employed by the government and all citizens should be on Medicare. Might as well wish for peace in the Middle East, never happen.
If you actually think all those civilian guns are ineffective you can volunteer to lead a team going door to door seizing them.
Over one hundred million people in the Middle East depend on oil money for their food and water. Where will they go when we quit buying their oil? Without oil farmers will not have the fertilizers, pesticides, and tractor fuel to grow the amount of food they do today and no way to transport what they do grow. Billions of people who depend on that food to be delivered will starve. The world's economies will crash.
All this disaster happens the minute we stop pumping oil and the world's governments know it. All the loss of land and liberties you foresee with climate change will be necessary to relocate entire populations and provide the land and housing they will need to grow their own food to prevent it. It is much easier to ignore the climate change disaster that is seventy five years away. Basically we are screwed either way.
How many black people do you know? Most I know have an iPhone if they want one. Almost every small town has an AT&T store, guess what, they sell iPhones. Anyone with a smartphone plan can have one FedExed to their house. My wife went to nursing school at a tech school in our small town. Seven of the thirteen students in her class were black. Each semester all the students got an eight hundred grant. Most of the black girls came in the next day with new iPhones. Several complained later that they didn't have a computer to do the online assignments required. I got my wife a $400 laptop, a $178 Samsung phone, and did some car repairs.
Didn't have to switch, it just updated itself. Why do I use Firefox? The search bar. I use it to lookup words I need to spell or define. Whatever I type in there remains across tabs while things typed into the address bar disappear when that tab is closed.
57 moved a few icons but I did find them. It does seem faster and hasn't locked up so far. For a 65 year old casual user one browser is just as good as the next. Even if the search bar disappeared I don't think I would switch to Chrome or Opera for daily use. I do use them occasionally. I use Opera's VPN to hide my IP from Progressive web sites that have banned me. I use Chrome sometimes for web sites that won't display right with the custom settings I have on Firefox.
Because me and millions just like me. No internet cable or DSL available. Satellite internet is capped so streaming time is limited. Dish and Directv only choice for TV and often no broadcast signal either..
Environmental laws effect growers of non subsidy crops also. In my area farmers have to follow a fertilization plan that limits nitrogen amount per acre and the nitrogen type. They face fines and loss of pumping permits for their irrigation wells if the plan is not followed. No carrot, just stick.
So people have to spend more for energy, what happens to the people who's stuff and services they used to buy with that money? Either way fossil fuel use has to decrease so can renewables power the same amount of economic productivity? Actually they will have to produce more economic activity to make up for the increased costs.
What happens to China's economy if Americans can not afforded to by their stuff? We may need to get off fossil fuels to save the planet but everyone will have to understand that we all must live a much reduced lifestyle.
Yeah, but apparently Hillary's voter base was, that's what they are mad about.
Lazy workers do not do nothing, just enough to not get fired. I never worked a union job but my father in law was senior employee for over a decade at a paper mill. The output from his machine dropped in half when he went off shift. He was a union man but those lazy guys did bother him. The union pay and benefits were great though. Before he retired he helped the programmer set up a new computer controlled paper towel machine. His son still works there and now they are putting in an even more sophisticated machine that eliminates five human operators. The union was eliminated when the plant was bought by a private company.
While visually stunning I can't suspend my disbelief of the premise. Why couldn't the replicants have a serial number encoded into their DNA? Why not simply take a photograph of each one before they were turned loose and use facial recognition to identify them?
How much do you spend eating out? How do you obtain free internet service? How old is your car? How much are your rent and property taxes? I have old cars with no payments. I don't eat out. My low end dwelling is payed for, property tax is $600 a year. I enjoy live college football. My physical condition limits my time out in the heat. $150 a month for my satellite TV and internet is a bargain.
The steering problem sounds fishy also. With two screws the ship reverses one of them and the ships veers to that side. I spent six years in destroyer engine rooms, we practiced that.
I'm retired and get to watch my wife get ready. She works nights as a nurse so it is a little different. Up at 7:00 pm. Fix coffee and a snack, eat while watching TV. Wander around looking for her glasses. Fix her face and hair. Try to find some clean scrubs. Watch a little more TV. Fix snacks and something to drink while at work. She is a pediatric home care nurse so no actual break time. She then packs her nursing bag, why it gets unpacked is beyond me. After she finds her keys and phone she leaves the house at 8:30.
When I worked I got up at 4:00 am, got dressed, ate breakfast, fixed my lunch and was out the door at 4:20.
I recall years ago reading a Sc-fi short story about life under a national health care system. Seems everyone had a small computer attached to their arms. You could only buy food in large government food stores. Now this was years before Walmart and iPhones, very prescient. The computer kept track every food purchase, balancing healthy choices with non-healthy. The subject of the story was trying to get lunch but the computer rejected every item he chose as not healthy enough. It then announced it would be 30 days before he could buy food again.
Far fetched back then but it could be now implemented tomorrow. Is this your plan to Make America Healthy Again?
Have you checked your parents equipment. I have Hughesnet's newest equipment with their top tier service, $89 a month for 50 GB at 15 Mb. I can stream movies on my computer or the Amazon Fire-stick on my TV with no buffering. Watching too many will reach the cap. I imagine your parents have an old system and a plan with a low cap and just spend most of the month at over cap limited speed.
I also have a cell booster with a directional antenna on a twenty ft mast outside my home. This allows my cell phones to work inside my home. Life in the country.
Wow, I spent most of my working life making $30,000 a year yet still helped four children get into collage. They got scholarships and loans but still I was able to give each one a decent car and keep the insurance up.
Sure, I live in a trailer, but I gave my children a good start. One teaches college, one is a lawyer, one is married and has her own house and a very adorable eleven month old daughter, and my youngest just graduated collage. I have 13 acres in a rural area. Many people work years to get a place like this, I'm already here.