A family at my church hosted a student from Norway. She was amazed that most teenagers here drove their own car. She couldn't drive and no one in her village even had a car. Like you, she didn't want to go back to Norway either.
Reminds me of one of my old grandpa's stories. A farmer was feeding his mule 4 buckets of oats a day. Oates cost a lot so he started cutting back how much he fed the mule. He cut the mule down to three buckets, the mule kept pulling the plow. Cut down to two buckets, the mule kept pulling. One bucket, the mule kept pulling. Stopped giving the mule anything, two days later the mule was dead. The farmer exclaimed, "Just when I get a mule that would work with no food, he up and dies!" Sometimes you can cut cost to far.
Most people think we have way too much civilization. Nation building half way around the world, subsidizing 100 billion dollar corporations, no one ask me if I wanted that. We can't vote in honest politicians, the major parties only run two candidates, and the corporations have bought of them.
Junior doctors work long hours because governments limit medical school enrollments and the medical culture "hazing" of residents eliminates many prospective doctors. A boyhood friend of mine is now a preeminent pediatric plastic surgeon. He flunked his residency twice because he couldn't function on 3 hours sleep in 48 hours. If they allowed more people to study medicine and let them get enough sleep there would be no shortage of doctors. Truck drivers have to log eight hours sleep per 24 or they can't drive but a surgeon is expected to do brain surgery after working 36 hours straight.
We all enjoy the profit of hydrocarbon burning every day. Diesel powered equipment and natural gas derived fertilizer allow a few percent of the population to feed the rest on half the land. The worlds forest would be quickly striped to cook our food and warm our homes.
You are quite correct that nothing much will be done to slow climate change and nothing can be done to stop it. A few can figuratively go live in caves and worship the Sun but the rest of us (the world) literally can't. The Earth's population was one billion in 1800. That is about Earth's maximum carrying capacity. If everyone who is NOT of Western European extraction disappeared we could probably slow climate change enough to cope. Unfortunately that is the segment of the population that is growing and we (Western Europeans) can do nothing to stop them.
Funny thing is, what we do what you say to stop AGW it will be really costly, wrecking havoc with economies and ecosystems and causing migrations, wars, and collapsing economies here and there, and it will be your fault.
We all care, we just want everyone else to make the sacrifices to halt global warming. (Almost) everyone agrees unless we do something drastic and soon we wont be able to do anything to stop it. What that something is no one is willing to say. The first out the gate will be pilloried by the special interest. Who is going to bell the cat?
Well, it's not aliens, it's Indians and Chinese who are spewing out a lot of the carbon dioxide. You might be fine cutting back on power usage and travel, but that subsistence farmer in India who almost starved last year is NOT going back to the farm and the factory he works at needs more power and coal is the cheapest way to produce it. Even if all of us over consuming westerners quit buying their stuff there are enough People in those two countries to sustain their economic growth and the attendant power usage. These people want what we have had for 70 years and they are not going to stop.
These seeds are from clones, identical, the original plants propagated from tissue samples, then the seed saved and replanted. Soybeans are self fertilizing and breed true.
Roundup is great. I use it in my garden to kill weeds and grass before I plant my seeds. It only kills green plants it contacts. It isn't absorbed by the roots. Farmers use it the same way. Kill the weeds before you plant and not have to burn fuel and lose moisture cultivating the ground to tear up the weeds.
OK, the money goes to schools. How do you keep the students in the schools, shackles? In 40 years we have tripled spending on schools, what more do we need? Armed guards and compulsory attendance for 12 years may keep a boy in class but will that make him learn anything?
My two oldest children had top marks in high school and had full academic scholarships. Unprepared for the freedom and responsibility of collage life (i.e. partying) they both lost their scholarships because of poor grades. My son joined ROTC to get a military scholarship. After 4 years in the Air Force he went to law school and got his law degree. My daughter just took out student loans and has a PhD and tons of debt. I hear this is common.
Simply round-up every female under 50 and have them sterilized. The savings over the next thirty years in education and prison costs would be hundreds of $trillions. Nothing else would have to be changed. No one's life style would be diminished. In eighty years the few remaining humans would inherit a slightly warmer Earth but could move where ever the weather was most pleasant. They could subsist off of the infrastructure left in place. Robotics and the accumulated knowledge and advancements of the next fifty years will insure the few million remaining humans will live in a virtual utopia.
The only quandary will be should we allow some people to reproduce or relentlessly hunt down and sterilize every female human to insure that for at least the next several million years the other species on Earth will not be subjected to a carbon releasing intelligence. Or we can do nothing. There have been mass extinctions in the past and the planet itself survived and life renewed itself so if we cause another extinction a new ecosystem will be formed in a few million years.
State and local sales taxes are for your benefit, in your state,enacted by officials you did vote for, and you did purchase the items in your state sitting at your computer. The state feels that when you buy anything and use it in your state they get some tax. Just write the law so that the shipper is the final sales agent and delivering the item to your door makes the sale at your address and any taxes applicable are due. The shipper collects the taxes along with the shipping charges when it picks up the item from the wholesaler.
I used to love it (not) when our teacher gave us a research assignment. The first ten students checked out the needed books from the library and everyone else had to use one of the two encyclopedia copies. HS class 1970.
With total confiscation of guns less people will be killed. People who would have been accidentally shot or shot themselves will be saved but those who could have defended themselves from an attacker will be helpless and the 911 operator will get to listen to their cries of terror as they are bludgeoned to death.
AT&T ran fiber in front of my house years ago. Not only do I not have fiber service I can't even get dsl. The AT&T service tech I talked to told me the CO my phone is hooked to is too antiquated to support dsl. AT&T was paid to run the fiber but it would cost them to hookup anyone up or even replace the old CO we use.
Millions more people would be middle class with lower taxes. They would be gobbling up goods and services. As the population shrank automation would be necessary to maintain production, not reduce worker numbers. It's to late for that now, the Hispanics will become a majority in 5o years. Whatever deals they make with the Chinese will be what the rest of us live with.
I had a "fixing industrial robots" job. I much preferred standing around watching them work perfectly to being upside-down in the guts of one replacing a load cell. I had to stand because if I was sitting the boss didn't think I was "working"
Barges are even more efficient. Should we dig canals everywhere? Trains allowed people to move cargo where there is no water, trucks allow freight to be delivered where there are no train tracks. Plus highways can be used by people for personal transportation.
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A family at my church hosted a student from Norway. She was amazed that most teenagers here drove their own car. She couldn't drive and no one in her village even had a car. Like you, she didn't want to go back to Norway either.
Reminds me of one of my old grandpa's stories. A farmer was feeding his mule 4 buckets of oats a day. Oates cost a lot so he started cutting back how much he fed the mule. He cut the mule down to three buckets, the mule kept pulling the plow. Cut down to two buckets, the mule kept pulling. One bucket, the mule kept pulling. Stopped giving the mule anything, two days later the mule was dead. The farmer exclaimed, "Just when I get a mule that would work with no food, he up and dies!" Sometimes you can cut cost to far.
Most people think we have way too much civilization. Nation building half way around the world, subsidizing 100 billion dollar corporations, no one ask me if I wanted that. We can't vote in honest politicians, the major parties only run two candidates, and the corporations have bought of them.
First time I have heard that plan. That is something to think about. Created wealth does little good if it is only used to create more wealth.
Junior doctors work long hours because governments limit medical school enrollments and the medical culture "hazing" of residents eliminates many prospective doctors. A boyhood friend of mine is now a preeminent pediatric plastic surgeon. He flunked his residency twice because he couldn't function on 3 hours sleep in 48 hours. If they allowed more people to study medicine and let them get enough sleep there would be no shortage of doctors. Truck drivers have to log eight hours sleep per 24 or they can't drive but a surgeon is expected to do brain surgery after working 36 hours straight.
We all enjoy the profit of hydrocarbon burning every day. Diesel powered equipment and natural gas derived fertilizer allow a few percent of the population to feed the rest on half the land. The worlds forest would be quickly striped to cook our food and warm our homes.
You are quite correct that nothing much will be done to slow climate change and nothing can be done to stop it. A few can figuratively go live in caves and worship the Sun but the rest of us (the world) literally can't. The Earth's population was one billion in 1800. That is about Earth's maximum carrying capacity. If everyone who is NOT of Western European extraction disappeared we could probably slow climate change enough to cope. Unfortunately that is the segment of the population that is growing and we (Western Europeans) can do nothing to stop them.
Funny thing is, what we do what you say to stop AGW it will be really costly, wrecking havoc with economies and ecosystems and causing migrations, wars, and collapsing economies here and there, and it will be your fault.
Yes, yes, yes, exactly.
We all care, we just want everyone else to make the sacrifices to halt global warming. (Almost) everyone agrees unless we do something drastic and soon we wont be able to do anything to stop it. What that something is no one is willing to say. The first out the gate will be pilloried by the special interest. Who is going to bell the cat?
Well, it's not aliens, it's Indians and Chinese who are spewing out a lot of the carbon dioxide. You might be fine cutting back on power usage and travel, but that subsistence farmer in India who almost starved last year is NOT going back to the farm and the factory he works at needs more power and coal is the cheapest way to produce it. Even if all of us over consuming westerners quit buying their stuff there are enough People in those two countries to sustain their economic growth and the attendant power usage. These people want what we have had for 70 years and they are not going to stop.
These seeds are from clones, identical, the original plants propagated from tissue samples, then the seed saved and replanted. Soybeans are self fertilizing and breed true.
Roundup is great. I use it in my garden to kill weeds and grass before I plant my seeds. It only kills green plants it contacts. It isn't absorbed by the roots. Farmers use it the same way. Kill the weeds before you plant and not have to burn fuel and lose moisture cultivating the ground to tear up the weeds.
OK, the money goes to schools. How do you keep the students in the schools, shackles? In 40 years we have tripled spending on schools, what more do we need? Armed guards and compulsory attendance for 12 years may keep a boy in class but will that make him learn anything?
My two oldest children had top marks in high school and had full academic scholarships. Unprepared for the freedom and responsibility of collage life (i.e. partying) they both lost their scholarships because of poor grades. My son joined ROTC to get a military scholarship. After 4 years in the Air Force he went to law school and got his law degree. My daughter just took out student loans and has a PhD and tons of debt. I hear this is common.
If you have a law degree and experience in contract law my son is looking for a team member in the Orlando area.
Simply round-up every female under 50 and have them sterilized. The savings over the next thirty years in education and prison costs would be hundreds of $trillions. Nothing else would have to be changed. No one's life style would be diminished. In eighty years the few remaining humans would inherit a slightly warmer Earth but could move where ever the weather was most pleasant. They could subsist off of the infrastructure left in place. Robotics and the accumulated knowledge and advancements of the next fifty years will insure the few million remaining humans will live in a virtual utopia.
The only quandary will be should we allow some people to reproduce or relentlessly hunt down and sterilize every female human to insure that for at least the next several million years the other species on Earth will not be subjected to a carbon releasing intelligence. Or we can do nothing. There have been mass extinctions in the past and the planet itself survived and life renewed itself so if we cause another extinction a new ecosystem will be formed in a few million years.
State and local sales taxes are for your benefit, in your state,enacted by officials you did vote for, and you did purchase the items in your state sitting at your computer. The state feels that when you buy anything and use it in your state they get some tax. Just write the law so that the shipper is the final sales agent and delivering the item to your door makes the sale at your address and any taxes applicable are due. The shipper collects the taxes along with the shipping charges when it picks up the item from the wholesaler.
Business pay property taxes for fire and police. State and local taxes are for social programs and support of local bureaucrats.
I used to love it (not) when our teacher gave us a research assignment. The first ten students checked out the needed books from the library and everyone else had to use one of the two encyclopedia copies. HS class 1970.
With total confiscation of guns less people will be killed. People who would have been accidentally shot or shot themselves will be saved but those who could have defended themselves from an attacker will be helpless and the 911 operator will get to listen to their cries of terror as they are bludgeoned to death.
AT&T ran fiber in front of my house years ago. Not only do I not have fiber service I can't even get dsl. The AT&T service tech I talked to told me the CO my phone is hooked to is too antiquated to support dsl. AT&T was paid to run the fiber but it would cost them to hookup anyone up or even replace the old CO we use.
Millions more people would be middle class with lower taxes. They would be gobbling up goods and services. As the population shrank automation would be necessary to maintain production, not reduce worker numbers. It's to late for that now, the Hispanics will become a majority in 5o years. Whatever deals they make with the Chinese will be what the rest of us live with.
Let's see, high tariffs, stops outsourcing. Border control, stops immigration. I guess that leaves domestically produced robots.
I had a "fixing industrial robots" job. I much preferred standing around watching them work perfectly to being upside-down in the guts of one replacing a load cell. I had to stand because if I was sitting the boss didn't think I was "working"
Barges are even more efficient. Should we dig canals everywhere? Trains allowed people to move cargo where there is no water, trucks allow freight to be delivered where there are no train tracks. Plus highways can be used by people for personal transportation.