That would heavily reduce the purchasing power of the USA and collapse it as a market to sell luxury goods to. Most of the things sold in the US are already made in China, they won't get significantly cheaper just because US wages are dropping. So people would simply be unable to buy as much which means both a lower quality of life and drastically reduced revenues for companies selling to the US.
The US economy would shrink massively while the US debts remain the same, including the interest payments. The debt to GDP ratio would skyrocket and the US would get into massive financial trouble.
If you want to avoid the debt issue you could go for hyperinflation but I don't think that would make anyone happy.
Without some statistics we can't make any links between hybrid ownership and protected classes. Before we can make such links we should assume that there is no strong correlation.
The *AAs don't drag you out on the street and publicly murder you because they suspect that you may have sung a song without paying license fees. Hell, organized crime in western countries is probably less evil than the Taliban (I'm not going to compare second or third world organized crime here though). Criminals are after money and power, the Taliban kill people for not adhering to their insanely strict moral codex. The closest comparison to the Taliban in the western world might be the SS.
Sundays and Holidays are enforced by law. It's even illegal for bakeries to sell bread for more than three hours on a Sunday. On the other hand when they relaxed the opening hours laws to allow stores to stay open until 22:00 most stores quickly went back to their old opening times after a month or two of trying out 22:00 because it just wasn't worth it.
For EU-based companies that would be a rather terrible idea, personal data isn't allowed to go to places like facebook and there's a lot of that stuff in many companies. Any casual remark about billing stuff or so could end in a massive fine.
In software development, there's a serious shortage of developers and considering how many things contain software these days it's only going to get worse..
I'm on an ALDI pre-paid card (bought my own smartphone) and they charge 8€ for a month-500MB data plan (throttled if you go past the limit, not those insane overage rates some contracts have). I use maybe 10 minutes of talk and up to 3 SMS per month so that seems like the most suitable plan.
Have you SEEN the horrible job the communists did? Germany was a neat experiment with the whole GDR shit and after the wall fell it became pretty damn clear which side is better at management. West Germany is still paying for the shitty management of the commies (in the form of a solidarity fee, used to bring the former GDR states up to speed).
10 years is lowballing it. My home PC runs Windows 7 and the UI still looks pretty much like the way I configured Windows 95 to look. Needless to say I'm using the "classic" theme. There are some additions but except for the My Computer link being in the start menu now (and of course the login) I don't think one would need to know more than Win95 to operate it.
Mechs are still very lightweight compared to vehicles in the setting. I guess they had to justify the mechs somehow or people would just play with tanks all the time.
Also bait & switch isn't a completely strictly defined thing, it only applies if the store doesn't have a reasonable stock of the advertised thing, not just because they sell out. What's a reasonable stock is probably up to a judge or at least the FTC.
Sure it's legal what Sony has done but it really shouldn't be. The whole voting with your wallet idea also helps even less than normal because you've already sunk money into the system and games for it.
Now ask the Jews who lived under medieval Christian rule. They were always the punching bag of the powerful. The protestant-catholic schism has been the cause of centuries of war throughout Europe.
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That would heavily reduce the purchasing power of the USA and collapse it as a market to sell luxury goods to. Most of the things sold in the US are already made in China, they won't get significantly cheaper just because US wages are dropping. So people would simply be unable to buy as much which means both a lower quality of life and drastically reduced revenues for companies selling to the US.
The US economy would shrink massively while the US debts remain the same, including the interest payments. The debt to GDP ratio would skyrocket and the US would get into massive financial trouble.
If you want to avoid the debt issue you could go for hyperinflation but I don't think that would make anyone happy.
On the other hand if they keep poisoning themselves the whole thing is self-limiting.
So you want people to install an evil bit in their car?
1.) Why should the mall/shopping center be mandated by the government to do that on its private property?
Because the mall wouldn't do it otherwise and we're past the days where disabled people are simply discarded by society.
Without some statistics we can't make any links between hybrid ownership and protected classes. Before we can make such links we should assume that there is no strong correlation.
Are you living under a rock? People are distributing "cracked" opensource software all the time.
Because it flows with the sentence it's built into?
Or a military exercise.
Immortal, i.e. unable to die. Not immoral.
All cars do.
The *AAs don't drag you out on the street and publicly murder you because they suspect that you may have sung a song without paying license fees. Hell, organized crime in western countries is probably less evil than the Taliban (I'm not going to compare second or third world organized crime here though). Criminals are after money and power, the Taliban kill people for not adhering to their insanely strict moral codex. The closest comparison to the Taliban in the western world might be the SS.
Sundays and Holidays are enforced by law. It's even illegal for bakeries to sell bread for more than three hours on a Sunday. On the other hand when they relaxed the opening hours laws to allow stores to stay open until 22:00 most stores quickly went back to their old opening times after a month or two of trying out 22:00 because it just wasn't worth it.
For EU-based companies that would be a rather terrible idea, personal data isn't allowed to go to places like facebook and there's a lot of that stuff in many companies. Any casual remark about billing stuff or so could end in a massive fine.
In software development, there's a serious shortage of developers and considering how many things contain software these days it's only going to get worse..
I'm on an ALDI pre-paid card (bought my own smartphone) and they charge 8€ for a month-500MB data plan (throttled if you go past the limit, not those insane overage rates some contracts have). I use maybe 10 minutes of talk and up to 3 SMS per month so that seems like the most suitable plan.
Have you SEEN the horrible job the communists did? Germany was a neat experiment with the whole GDR shit and after the wall fell it became pretty damn clear which side is better at management. West Germany is still paying for the shitty management of the commies (in the form of a solidarity fee, used to bring the former GDR states up to speed).
10 years is lowballing it. My home PC runs Windows 7 and the UI still looks pretty much like the way I configured Windows 95 to look. Needless to say I'm using the "classic" theme. There are some additions but except for the My Computer link being in the start menu now (and of course the login) I don't think one would need to know more than Win95 to operate it.
We're talking about the government here.
Nobody says that a railgun has to fire stuff at high velocities.
Yeah except we're talking about reason enough for a nuclear war here. It's always a nation's top priority to not get nuked into oblivion.
Mechs are still very lightweight compared to vehicles in the setting. I guess they had to justify the mechs somehow or people would just play with tanks all the time.
Also bait & switch isn't a completely strictly defined thing, it only applies if the store doesn't have a reasonable stock of the advertised thing, not just because they sell out. What's a reasonable stock is probably up to a judge or at least the FTC.
Sure it's legal what Sony has done but it really shouldn't be. The whole voting with your wallet idea also helps even less than normal because you've already sunk money into the system and games for it.
All this talk about valid IDs and you Americans still oppose the idea of a standard personal ID card...
Now ask the Jews who lived under medieval Christian rule. They were always the punching bag of the powerful. The protestant-catholic schism has been the cause of centuries of war throughout Europe.