Would you mind posting a few statistics about the cost of moving ~100 million people 10 to 20 miles closer to rail stations and the cost of thousands of rail stations? Soviet style high rises are not most peoples' idea of comfortable living. I enjoy having my own transportation. One tank of gas will allow me to travel to any destination I wish in a 150 mile radius any time i wish. No schedule, no strangers. It's called freedom, we're big on that here.
Just like when my son was stationed in Germany. His clothing, collage text books, musical instruments, computer was put in a container. Manifest showed container went on the ship, off load manifest showed it did not come off the ship. I guess he was one of those "one in a million".
Put your farmer hat on. Caned corn comes from sweet corn, not regular field corn. It is harder to grow, needing pesticide sprays every three days and must be harvested at peak of sweetness. It can be harvested by machine but hand harvesting allows unripe ears a few days to mature. Sugar is usually added to caned fruit, world sugar prices are much lower than the tariff protected price of U.S. sugar.
This is why they also have a camera with automobile recognition software that can tell individual makes of cars apart along side the transponder receivers. Your car is tracked continuously. If your transponder showed up on the other side of town without being tracked along the way, it wasn't you. If the criminals used an identical car, same color, drove it from your house to the crime scene, then drove it back to your house before they disabled their clone transponder, maybe. But then their car would have to have driven to your house with a different transponder and records would show a car identical to yours driving to and away from your house.
At least here in the states it would do away with the need for uninsured motorist insurance. Any car without insurance would be flagged and stopped.
I'm just curious, why should a mathematics text be any different for Finland than America? 2 + 2 is 4 no mater which country you're doing the addition. Language and history text will of course differ but shouldn't math, physics, chemistry be universal, only needing the narration to be accurately translated into the local language? I understand wanting to employ local publishers but we buy your cell phones, you should buy our text books. Snide remarks about wanting the students to actually learn math will be ignored.
The Catholic Church used violent conquest in the Americas, not Christians. The Popes have lots of blood on their hands. Some so called Christians will turn to violence occasionally but wholesale slaughter of "heretics" is reserved for papists.
The automobile replaced the horse because it was so much more useful. An electric car is less useful than an ICE car. People will have to be forced to change to electrics to replace more than a small percentage gasoline powered cars. It is still more economical to drill in the Arctic, fight the Arabs, and make synthetic gas from coal than to convert to all electrics. If you want to start an other civil war try to take away people's SUVs and make them drive glorified golf carts.
Due to space constraints and handling considerations most electric car batteries are built into the frame or located on the underside of the car making them difficult to remove. Many electric fork lifts have the 2000 kg battery assessable from the side and it can be exchanged for a fully charged battery in a few minutes at a charging station. I have worked at a warehouse that used this system. An expensive lift truck doesn't have to sit idle eight hours while the battery is recharged.
But under how many names did you register? If you have to present ID to register you can use that to vote. If you don't have to prove your identity to vote you shouldn't have to prove you identity every time you register.
How do these people avail themselves to social services without identification? How do they attend public schools with any ID? If they do have a job how does their employer pay them with knowing who they are to report withholding taxes? These people, I live near and work with them, can get to the welfare office, Walmart, the beach, liquor store, and usually not only have an ID card but several!
Would you put your money in a bank that would allow anyone that knew your name to be able to withdraw money from your account? Isn't your vote worth the same security?
You can't have single payer without single provider. Otherwise you get quarter billion medicare (single payer) fraud cases times ten. As a GSA employee a doctor collects her paycheck and there is no worry about coding and no financial gain or liability concerns to run unnecessary tests. If all medical care is government provided all insurance cost (health and malpractice) go away.
In my home we have five adults and six vehicles. Even if everyone leaves in a separate car there is still one in the yard and no it not up on blocks. That and four very vocal dogs locked in the house.
I feel your pain. I live one mile from the end of dsl and cable service. I pay $80 a month for 1.5 Mb capped at 475 MB a day. I have lived in the same house for forty one years. There is no prospect of growth in my area so I will be long dead before any new services are available on my road.
You will control resistant weeds the same way we controlled weeds before herbicides, cultivation. I'm sure it wont be hard to find hundreds of thousands of people willing to walk down the cornrows with a hoe and chop down every weed and a few thousand more to hand pull the ones left. Yes I'm old and yes I have done that and as a farmer I was very glad to have herbicides available. Commercial farms can use tractor pulled cultivators but these prune the crop roots and release moisture from the ground and it takes much more fuel to pull a cultivator than to tote a sprayer.
You don't need a cell phone, just a busy body. My cousin got a ride to the store with one his son's friends. Someone thought the truck looked like one used in a robbery. They were arrested on suspension of burglary. My cousin is disabled with a heart condition and unemployed. He couldn't make bail ($50,000) and spent two months in jail before the charges were dropped. Be careful who you're seen with
It's called profit margin. Samsung about 10%, Apple 25%, it's like you making $100,000 in a year and your more talented neighbor making $100,000 in five months.
Let's put the focus back on the issues. the time for ad hominem attacks is over. What will the in coming president and his party do to strengthen our nation and pull back from financial collapse? Healthcare will also be a big concern. Both candidates have experience with mandated coverage. Demonizing the rich and confiscating their money might some people feel good and ad some extra revenues, but where will the trillions needed to run our government every year come from if all wealth is destroyed?
OK, I'am disabled, unemployed, and have insomnia. I stay up most nights trolling forums. My expertise is agricultural and mechanical. Plant biology, pesticides and soil fertility. Plus diesel mechanics, plc controlled weighing and packaging equipment, hydraulic systems, hazardous waste collection and shipping. Plus industrial three phase electrical systems and air conditioning. With a semester of C++ programming. And six years in the Navy as a machinist mate running 600 pound steam propulsion systems. I know a little about a whole lot and have an opinion about everything. I put four children through collage, so I think I've done all right. Being awake for thirty hours does cloud my thinking somewhat and yes, I can't spell. Spell check tries to help but sometimes I use a correctly spelled word incorrectly. Thanks for playing.
You know, I might just do that. I will send my next novel to my daughter who has a PhD in creative writing and have her tighten up my prose. Then have her send it to her brother who is a contract lawyer so he can make sure Simon and Schuster don't shaft me on my best seller. Thanks for your advise.
Of course you can do without. Most literary works are produced for profit, not random peoples need to be entertained. Me, I'am writing to entertain myself, and you got to read my work for free. Now patents on things that improve my life or health, those need a much shorter term..
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As they say, "Africa is a great place to be from".
Would you mind posting a few statistics about the cost of moving ~100 million people 10 to 20 miles closer to rail stations and the cost of thousands of rail stations? Soviet style high rises are not most peoples' idea of comfortable living. I enjoy having my own transportation. One tank of gas will allow me to travel to any destination I wish in a 150 mile radius any time i wish. No schedule, no strangers. It's called freedom, we're big on that here.
Just like when my son was stationed in Germany. His clothing, collage text books, musical instruments, computer was put in a container. Manifest showed container went on the ship, off load manifest showed it did not come off the ship. I guess he was one of those "one in a million".
Put your farmer hat on. Caned corn comes from sweet corn, not regular field corn. It is harder to grow, needing pesticide sprays every three days and must be harvested at peak of sweetness. It can be harvested by machine but hand harvesting allows unripe ears a few days to mature. Sugar is usually added to caned fruit, world sugar prices are much lower than the tariff protected price of U.S. sugar.
This is why they also have a camera with automobile recognition software that can tell individual makes of cars apart along side the transponder receivers. Your car is tracked continuously. If your transponder showed up on the other side of town without being tracked along the way, it wasn't you. If the criminals used an identical car, same color, drove it from your house to the crime scene, then drove it back to your house before they disabled their clone transponder, maybe. But then their car would have to have driven to your house with a different transponder and records would show a car identical to yours driving to and away from your house. At least here in the states it would do away with the need for uninsured motorist insurance. Any car without insurance would be flagged and stopped.
I'm just curious, why should a mathematics text be any different for Finland than America? 2 + 2 is 4 no mater which country you're doing the addition. Language and history text will of course differ but shouldn't math, physics, chemistry be universal, only needing the narration to be accurately translated into the local language? I understand wanting to employ local publishers but we buy your cell phones, you should buy our text books. Snide remarks about wanting the students to actually learn math will be ignored.
If the students realize they are being patronized you are either a poor writer or the students are too old for the material any way.
The Catholic Church used violent conquest in the Americas, not Christians. The Popes have lots of blood on their hands. Some so called Christians will turn to violence occasionally but wholesale slaughter of "heretics" is reserved for papists.
The automobile replaced the horse because it was so much more useful. An electric car is less useful than an ICE car. People will have to be forced to change to electrics to replace more than a small percentage gasoline powered cars. It is still more economical to drill in the Arctic, fight the Arabs, and make synthetic gas from coal than to convert to all electrics. If you want to start an other civil war try to take away people's SUVs and make them drive glorified golf carts.
Due to space constraints and handling considerations most electric car batteries are built into the frame or located on the underside of the car making them difficult to remove. Many electric fork lifts have the 2000 kg battery assessable from the side and it can be exchanged for a fully charged battery in a few minutes at a charging station. I have worked at a warehouse that used this system. An expensive lift truck doesn't have to sit idle eight hours while the battery is recharged.
But under how many names did you register? If you have to present ID to register you can use that to vote. If you don't have to prove your identity to vote you shouldn't have to prove you identity every time you register.
How do these people avail themselves to social services without identification? How do they attend public schools with any ID? If they do have a job how does their employer pay them with knowing who they are to report withholding taxes? These people, I live near and work with them, can get to the welfare office, Walmart, the beach, liquor store, and usually not only have an ID card but several! Would you put your money in a bank that would allow anyone that knew your name to be able to withdraw money from your account? Isn't your vote worth the same security?
You can't have single payer without single provider. Otherwise you get quarter billion medicare (single payer) fraud cases times ten. As a GSA employee a doctor collects her paycheck and there is no worry about coding and no financial gain or liability concerns to run unnecessary tests. If all medical care is government provided all insurance cost (health and malpractice) go away.
In my home we have five adults and six vehicles. Even if everyone leaves in a separate car there is still one in the yard and no it not up on blocks. That and four very vocal dogs locked in the house.
I feel your pain. I live one mile from the end of dsl and cable service. I pay $80 a month for 1.5 Mb capped at 475 MB a day. I have lived in the same house for forty one years. There is no prospect of growth in my area so I will be long dead before any new services are available on my road.
You will control resistant weeds the same way we controlled weeds before herbicides, cultivation. I'm sure it wont be hard to find hundreds of thousands of people willing to walk down the cornrows with a hoe and chop down every weed and a few thousand more to hand pull the ones left. Yes I'm old and yes I have done that and as a farmer I was very glad to have herbicides available. Commercial farms can use tractor pulled cultivators but these prune the crop roots and release moisture from the ground and it takes much more fuel to pull a cultivator than to tote a sprayer.
You don't need a cell phone, just a busy body. My cousin got a ride to the store with one his son's friends. Someone thought the truck looked like one used in a robbery. They were arrested on suspension of burglary. My cousin is disabled with a heart condition and unemployed. He couldn't make bail ($50,000) and spent two months in jail before the charges were dropped. Be careful who you're seen with
Remember, "When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled." The best we can hope for is some elephant poop fertilizer.
It's called profit margin. Samsung about 10%, Apple 25%, it's like you making $100,000 in a year and your more talented neighbor making $100,000 in five months.
Obama's pep rally in Germany did't bother you at all?
Let's put the focus back on the issues. the time for ad hominem attacks is over. What will the in coming president and his party do to strengthen our nation and pull back from financial collapse? Healthcare will also be a big concern. Both candidates have experience with mandated coverage. Demonizing the rich and confiscating their money might some people feel good and ad some extra revenues, but where will the trillions needed to run our government every year come from if all wealth is destroyed?
OK, I'am disabled, unemployed, and have insomnia. I stay up most nights trolling forums. My expertise is agricultural and mechanical. Plant biology, pesticides and soil fertility. Plus diesel mechanics, plc controlled weighing and packaging equipment, hydraulic systems, hazardous waste collection and shipping. Plus industrial three phase electrical systems and air conditioning. With a semester of C++ programming. And six years in the Navy as a machinist mate running 600 pound steam propulsion systems. I know a little about a whole lot and have an opinion about everything. I put four children through collage, so I think I've done all right. Being awake for thirty hours does cloud my thinking somewhat and yes, I can't spell. Spell check tries to help but sometimes I use a correctly spelled word incorrectly. Thanks for playing.
You know, I might just do that. I will send my next novel to my daughter who has a PhD in creative writing and have her tighten up my prose. Then have her send it to her brother who is a contract lawyer so he can make sure Simon and Schuster don't shaft me on my best seller. Thanks for your advise.
Of course you can do without. Most literary works are produced for profit, not random peoples need to be entertained. Me, I'am writing to entertain myself, and you got to read my work for free. Now patents on things that improve my life or health, those need a much shorter term..
Channeling Harry Reid here, a friend told me Obama didn't attend all his classes. We need to investigate.