Your utopian havens of european socialism still rely on cheaply produced goods from outside, they're just better at keeping the rifraff out. Show me the country that adheres to socialist ideals while at the same time banning imports from countries that don't make the same pledge, and perhaps you'll have a point.
It's the delta, not the heat pump, that makes A/C generally cheaper to run than electric heat. Cooling a CA house from 90 down to 70 is a lot easier than heating an upstate NY house from -15 to 60.
We could have developed knowledge to where we realized that commercial nuclear fuel is unsuitable for use in bombs. We could have also taken note that any nuclear pile being used for power generation is critical. Fuck anti-nuke wackos with their rocks and clubs.
The criminal use of another person's ID is by far the more terrifying. I would much rather have someone set up an unlicensed druggist's 2 doors down than for the police to batter down my door in the dark of night, with rules of engagement for dealing with a supposedly violent criminal. Much rather that someone else be given the opportunity to destroy their own life through drug abuse than for the police to either destroy me professionally with drug charges or physically with excessive force.
For whatever reason, "DSLR" has come to mean "a camera with a large, high-quality sensor". Frustrates the hell out of me too. One can most certainly attach a pound of prisms, mirrors, and mechanical levers to the sensor out of a cameraphone and have a "DSLR". At least Panasonic managed to buck the trend and make a large-sensor camera with interchangeable lenses and only digital preview.
The entire accident happened inside a containment building on a controlled site. Even if the thing did blow up, there wouldn't have been a release outside the building. That is the #1 reason why Chernobyl is a terrible argument against American nuclear power: That giant sarcophagus over the site that was built at ruinous human cost already exists over every reactor in the States (and most of the rest of the world too), and will prevent the release of radioactive material should everything that could possibly go wrong did.
Rather than blaming a technology for requiring a particular mineral, or an industry for producing such products, does it not make more sense to blame the people killing and repressing populations over the minerals for any bloodshed? I'm sure that the assholes running their little war bands in the Congo will find something else to murder and repress over, just as tribal kingdoms in the region have for much of history.
Politicians love bans because it's so difficult to analyze the cost. If a big screen cost 10% more because of a law, it's trackable (and actually visible to voters). If the big screen just disappears from stores, it's much harder to measure the impact.
Let you shop around provided that the radio is capable of changing bands. I investigated a switch from Verizon to Sprint recently, as they use the same type of cell network, and found out I'd be under contract again paying off a handset identical to the Verizon one I'd just paid off with the exception of tuning to a slightly different band. Particularly irritating, given that a vast portion of Sprint coverage in my area is actually from Verizon towers (indicating that the technology exists somewhere to let them interoperate).
This reduction sounds amazingly like how you might construct a cellular handset. Somehow I think the market for real computers is going to survive the onslaught of Google-branded desktop smartphones.
Because most every culture mandates that children be raised by their parents, regardless of their competency in the role, nature versus nurture (genes, versus environment) is almost a moot argument. Fools do produce and raise more children, and have a higher chance of raising them to be fools be it due to bad genes or an ignorant upbringing in spite of good genes.
Yes, because I don't want to pay every bill of every person in the world, I hate the disabled. Every time I see a television commercial advertising improved diabetes care devices, my blood just boils. The key thing that market solutions provide, and I support, over government solutions are shades of grey in level of support. 100% is almost never the economically efficient level of coverage for anything, be it cable television or dialysis.
If it makes sense for a business to integrate a ramp into an elevated entryway, do it. An extra few yards (Not cubic meters! What a barbarian!) of concrete as a fixed cost probably does make sense when it opens a business to a larger clientele.
Way to assume. I wouldn't expect anyone to pay my way if I had some pre-existing medical condition, any more than I would expect a concert venue in Prague to fly me there because I have tickets but happen to live in the States.
Insurance is to INSURE against truely unlikely events. If you BECOME seriously ill, that is where insurance kicks in. It's not there to cover what you know is going to happen. The "insurance" provided by this bill is like my house insurance paying to mow the lawn.
Fuck privacy between you and your health insurer. You have no expectation that your history of leaving open flames unattended be kept from your home insurer, or that your history of reckless driving be kept from your car insurer. If you have an expectation to bill $10K/month in healthcare expenses, I as a fellow premium-payer would expect you to kick a bit more in the pot than I do, since you are certain to pull more out.
MS suite features coming to FF is kind of like the FF "features" that have been trickling into Opera over the years. Eternal damnation to whoever thought tabs are better than subwindows and removed the inner control box from maximized pages in Opera!
In at least some states (Massachusetts for one) out-of-state ID isn't accepted for alcohol purchases, but federal ID like a passport is. Not sure if California is like that though.
The DHS could point to what they see as plots that they indeed foiled. Instead they've made every action a state secret, because if it somehow got out that a plot had been foiled, it might help the bad guys... who somehow missed the memo on their own organization being taken down.
Dying in a terrorist attack on an airliner rates in likelihood somewhere between a bear attack and getting hit by lightning. If you limit yourself to the terrorist attacks where they detonated wads of cash to take the plane down, it's on the level with your heart suddenly quantum tunnelling out of your body. The state had no need to know where this cash came from or was going, and the staffer had no legal obligation to reveal it (the last time I flew there was actually a sign clearly stating that the line for questions about cash was $10K).
As for as driving or taking a boat: bridges and boats blow up just as easy as airplanes; why does this one mode of travel get singled out for total removal of personal rights?
A powered descent like you describe would take exactly as much energy as the power ascent that brought them to their current orbit. That is, 2 giagantic solid boosters and a supply of fuel larger in volume than the craft itself. There's a good reason that we've always used aerobraking to recover spacecraft: it's flipping expensive to do a powered recovery.
It's all well and good for private citizens to take matters into their own hands, start a rival enterprise, and take market share from a bloated and inefficient corporation. I would need to see, however, proof that this service provider wasn't formed from startup capital taken from the general populace at gunpoint (just see what happens when you skimp on property tax), and is not sustained by the same.
You must remember that the clueless CEO that ran the company into the ground is shirtless just as his investors are. Intelligence is required not only in the direct investment of funds, but in chosing where to put one's own savings. If security is important, then there are many safe investments available (savings accounts, T-bills, etc). The added rewards that come from an investment bank account have associated risk; that's why there's a reward.
Illegal drugs, by being illegal, are one of the most heavily regulated industries on earth. If dental floss were a controlled substance, likely the man you bought it from without a permit would also not hesitate to gun down regulators who came to imprison him for the rest of his life.
If we lived under laissez-faire capitalism, all those banks and investment firms that ran themselves into the ground would have been permitted to collapse fully, freeing capital for the use of new entrepreneurs, some of whom would use it more wisely, some of whom would fail and pass it on yet again. Instead, we take from the taxpayer to prop up failed firms and maintain failed leaders. It is socialism that has failed us.
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Your utopian havens of european socialism still rely on cheaply produced goods from outside, they're just better at keeping the rifraff out. Show me the country that adheres to socialist ideals while at the same time banning imports from countries that don't make the same pledge, and perhaps you'll have a point.
It's the delta, not the heat pump, that makes A/C generally cheaper to run than electric heat. Cooling a CA house from 90 down to 70 is a lot easier than heating an upstate NY house from -15 to 60.
We could have developed knowledge to where we realized that commercial nuclear fuel is unsuitable for use in bombs. We could have also taken note that any nuclear pile being used for power generation is critical. Fuck anti-nuke wackos with their rocks and clubs.
The criminal use of another person's ID is by far the more terrifying. I would much rather have someone set up an unlicensed druggist's 2 doors down than for the police to batter down my door in the dark of night, with rules of engagement for dealing with a supposedly violent criminal. Much rather that someone else be given the opportunity to destroy their own life through drug abuse than for the police to either destroy me professionally with drug charges or physically with excessive force.
For whatever reason, "DSLR" has come to mean "a camera with a large, high-quality sensor". Frustrates the hell out of me too. One can most certainly attach a pound of prisms, mirrors, and mechanical levers to the sensor out of a cameraphone and have a "DSLR". At least Panasonic managed to buck the trend and make a large-sensor camera with interchangeable lenses and only digital preview.
The entire accident happened inside a containment building on a controlled site. Even if the thing did blow up, there wouldn't have been a release outside the building. That is the #1 reason why Chernobyl is a terrible argument against American nuclear power: That giant sarcophagus over the site that was built at ruinous human cost already exists over every reactor in the States (and most of the rest of the world too), and will prevent the release of radioactive material should everything that could possibly go wrong did.
Rather than blaming a technology for requiring a particular mineral, or an industry for producing such products, does it not make more sense to blame the people killing and repressing populations over the minerals for any bloodshed? I'm sure that the assholes running their little war bands in the Congo will find something else to murder and repress over, just as tribal kingdoms in the region have for much of history.
Politicians love bans because it's so difficult to analyze the cost. If a big screen cost 10% more because of a law, it's trackable (and actually visible to voters). If the big screen just disappears from stores, it's much harder to measure the impact.
Let you shop around provided that the radio is capable of changing bands. I investigated a switch from Verizon to Sprint recently, as they use the same type of cell network, and found out I'd be under contract again paying off a handset identical to the Verizon one I'd just paid off with the exception of tuning to a slightly different band. Particularly irritating, given that a vast portion of Sprint coverage in my area is actually from Verizon towers (indicating that the technology exists somewhere to let them interoperate).
This reduction sounds amazingly like how you might construct a cellular handset. Somehow I think the market for real computers is going to survive the onslaught of Google-branded desktop smartphones.
Because most every culture mandates that children be raised by their parents, regardless of their competency in the role, nature versus nurture (genes, versus environment) is almost a moot argument. Fools do produce and raise more children, and have a higher chance of raising them to be fools be it due to bad genes or an ignorant upbringing in spite of good genes.
Yes, because I don't want to pay every bill of every person in the world, I hate the disabled. Every time I see a television commercial advertising improved diabetes care devices, my blood just boils. The key thing that market solutions provide, and I support, over government solutions are shades of grey in level of support. 100% is almost never the economically efficient level of coverage for anything, be it cable television or dialysis.
If it makes sense for a business to integrate a ramp into an elevated entryway, do it. An extra few yards (Not cubic meters! What a barbarian!) of concrete as a fixed cost probably does make sense when it opens a business to a larger clientele.
Way to assume. I wouldn't expect anyone to pay my way if I had some pre-existing medical condition, any more than I would expect a concert venue in Prague to fly me there because I have tickets but happen to live in the States.
Insurance is to INSURE against truely unlikely events. If you BECOME seriously ill, that is where insurance kicks in. It's not there to cover what you know is going to happen. The "insurance" provided by this bill is like my house insurance paying to mow the lawn.
Fuck privacy between you and your health insurer. You have no expectation that your history of leaving open flames unattended be kept from your home insurer, or that your history of reckless driving be kept from your car insurer. If you have an expectation to bill $10K/month in healthcare expenses, I as a fellow premium-payer would expect you to kick a bit more in the pot than I do, since you are certain to pull more out.
MS suite features coming to FF is kind of like the FF "features" that have been trickling into Opera over the years. Eternal damnation to whoever thought tabs are better than subwindows and removed the inner control box from maximized pages in Opera!
In at least some states (Massachusetts for one) out-of-state ID isn't accepted for alcohol purchases, but federal ID like a passport is. Not sure if California is like that though.
The DHS could point to what they see as plots that they indeed foiled. Instead they've made every action a state secret, because if it somehow got out that a plot had been foiled, it might help the bad guys ... who somehow missed the memo on their own organization being taken down.
Dying in a terrorist attack on an airliner rates in likelihood somewhere between a bear attack and getting hit by lightning. If you limit yourself to the terrorist attacks where they detonated wads of cash to take the plane down, it's on the level with your heart suddenly quantum tunnelling out of your body. The state had no need to know where this cash came from or was going, and the staffer had no legal obligation to reveal it (the last time I flew there was actually a sign clearly stating that the line for questions about cash was $10K).
As for as driving or taking a boat: bridges and boats blow up just as easy as airplanes; why does this one mode of travel get singled out for total removal of personal rights?
A powered descent like you describe would take exactly as much energy as the power ascent that brought them to their current orbit. That is, 2 giagantic solid boosters and a supply of fuel larger in volume than the craft itself. There's a good reason that we've always used aerobraking to recover spacecraft: it's flipping expensive to do a powered recovery.
It's all well and good for private citizens to take matters into their own hands, start a rival enterprise, and take market share from a bloated and inefficient corporation. I would need to see, however, proof that this service provider wasn't formed from startup capital taken from the general populace at gunpoint (just see what happens when you skimp on property tax), and is not sustained by the same.
For a little extra, GM will actually let you take personal delivery of a new Corvette at the factory, after personally supervising its construction: http://www.corvettemuseum.com/ncm_delivery/index.shtml
You must remember that the clueless CEO that ran the company into the ground is shirtless just as his investors are. Intelligence is required not only in the direct investment of funds, but in chosing where to put one's own savings. If security is important, then there are many safe investments available (savings accounts, T-bills, etc). The added rewards that come from an investment bank account have associated risk; that's why there's a reward.
Illegal drugs, by being illegal, are one of the most heavily regulated industries on earth. If dental floss were a controlled substance, likely the man you bought it from without a permit would also not hesitate to gun down regulators who came to imprison him for the rest of his life.
If we lived under laissez-faire capitalism, all those banks and investment firms that ran themselves into the ground would have been permitted to collapse fully, freeing capital for the use of new entrepreneurs, some of whom would use it more wisely, some of whom would fail and pass it on yet again. Instead, we take from the taxpayer to prop up failed firms and maintain failed leaders. It is socialism that has failed us.