We don't have much uranium either so it's a toss up either way. Whatever we do we have to get rid of those old-as-dirt nuke plants we already have in place. They are outdated and failure-prone and it was just obvious lobbying that made the conservatives and liberals extend the runtime of those things.
Those trade barriers established by the EU and member state governments exist precisely to protect local farmers from international competition because they would not be cost-competitive with a desperate farmer in the poorer parts of Africa. While abolishing those systems would not be a direct ban on farming it would eliminate most domestic food production which means the country becomes dependent on international trade for basic survival. It doesn't matter to your economy-only viewpoint but when you add hostile nations to the equation you have a country that's extremely vulnerable to trade embargoes, sea blockades and any other nation-level attack on its trade routes.
If we were to piss off some e.g. major African nation that nation could intercept our trade routes and leave our population starving. Remember that just because we aren't at war doesn't mean we don't need to worry about it. We aren't at war because we're strong. If we become weak then we become prey for more aggressive nations who want a slice of one of the world's biggest exporters.
Food is cheap enough for me, I don't give a damn if we could push it down another few percent (most of that money's gonna be swallowed by middlemen anyway) but I do care that we could risk the wellbeing of the entire nation over some stupid ideals.
Guess that's a difference between where BMW is deciding on laser headlights and where you are, in Germany there's a mandatory inspection of the car every two years that covers all kinds of defects. Also I believe any modifications to the car have to be inspected by the same authority immediately, any failures there have to be fixed immediately or the car is banned from being used on public roads.
By the looks of it about a third of the US has similar inspections. Considering cars can move across state boundaries I would really have expected that to be something mandated on the federal level instead of the state level.
I'm in Germany and there's no real talk about any govt policy really helping against the recession, the talk there is more about the strength of the economy and the unimpacted consumer spending simply letting the economy recover. The only thing that even looks like austerity is how surveys show that the people don't want the govt's tax surplus to be used for tax breaks (which many suspect are just a "bailout" for the liberal party who botched so many publicly important policies that their position in the parliaments is threatened*) and instead want it used for paying off debts after we've seen what debt problems can do to other nations. It's more of a preventative measure to keep debts from impacting the economy than any real austerity. Cuts to social programs within the last decade or so were aimed more at making unemployment unattractive (unemployment benefits were so great that too many people just decided to live the lazy life, those still exist but their numbers have gone down I believe) and making people want jobs instead of living off the dole.
Some of the govt stabilization programs during the recession helped weather it, the bank bailout loans for example have already been repaid by plenty of banks.
Our social market economy is seen as another govt-side stabilizer but that's not an active measure to combat the recessions, it's just the way things are structured here.
Of course all this is how the news report it, not necessarily how the back end looks like.
*= State level polls even suggest that the Pirate Party may be displacing the liberal party in Berlin. I guess the people who voted liberal for the personal freedoms instead of the economic ones are now going for the Pirate Party instead.
Buyers for Bitcoins probably compare the amount they buy to the possible maximum of Bitcoins, not the currently mined ones. Who cares that the active money supply is increasing when everybody knows what the final money supply will be? The mining of new Bitcoins will stop at some point and can never be continued past that point so people aren't worried about Weimar-style hyperinflation where the money supply grows at an exponential rate for who knows how long.
If the pool of possible Bitcoins were to increase suddenly then the value of Bitcoins would drop massively.
Depends on what you drive. Tanks use simple kinetic penetrators against other tanks so the cow would just have a rather large hole (possibly toxic if you use DU rounds).
Letting your whole food production wander off to cheaper workers is a terrible idea for the stability of the country (a trade problem could cause mass starvation and Germany has always been limited in long range trade as our navies could never stand up to more seafaring nations like Britain and France). Just because our farmers need to have enough money to buy TVs and other luxury goods they aren't somehow inefficient money eaters. Everything costs more when made here but that's only cost to the consumer. Our human workers still require the same amount of nutrition for the same actions. Our machinery is the same stuff they're using anywhere else (maybe even more modern and efficient). Our farming practices are set up to keep the ground usable. We don't burn down tropical rainforest just to grab new farmland because our old areas got depleted.
There are more costs than just the money exchanged at the supermarket. I don't disagree that international trade is heavily exploiting Africa by paying them so little they almost starve and thus pushing them to farm more cash crops and overfarm the land until it's unusable leading to rainforest burning but that's not going to get better by abolishing our own farming.
I guess the two year contracts must be a thing in your country because in mine we have a ton of pre-paid options and most people who don't phone a lot have pre-paid cards.
Would Apple really need such a stunt to get publicity for the next version of iProduct? People will line up around the whole block the moment Apple announces an iPhone 5.
With shitty pay for people with power I'd expect corruption much more than stupidity. Many corrupt countries have their corruption because they give people power but don't pay them enough so the empowered people decide to supplement their income by bribery or blackmail. Keep your policemen and judges well paid.
I'd be more understanding if the design Apple is trying to protect wasn't such a damn simple one. It's pretty much reduced to the bare essentials for functioning. Once you strip something down to that level the options for varying designs diminish.
That's inherited from Half-Life, the original version of that was also indexed and got censored with the humans sitting down and gibs being replaced by the enemy just fading out (having the original version I only got to see that by turning on the low violence option in the game, was kinda useful to see what you fragged with a grenade though).
Well, John Carmack has recently talked about the New Super Mario Bros games being the big hits in his household and since the original Super Mario Bros was the game Commander Keen was based on that might give id some impetus to finally deliver Keen 7: Goodbye Universe. That shouldn't take a huge team and if it was done right it could sell insane amounts (both NSMB games sold more than 20 million copies, that's more than a Call of Duty game!).
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They don't have that much in the way of oil.
We don't have much uranium either so it's a toss up either way. Whatever we do we have to get rid of those old-as-dirt nuke plants we already have in place. They are outdated and failure-prone and it was just obvious lobbying that made the conservatives and liberals extend the runtime of those things.
Considering it's Walmart we're talking about they're probably importing cheap energy from unshielded nuclear power plants in China or something.
Those trade barriers established by the EU and member state governments exist precisely to protect local farmers from international competition because they would not be cost-competitive with a desperate farmer in the poorer parts of Africa. While abolishing those systems would not be a direct ban on farming it would eliminate most domestic food production which means the country becomes dependent on international trade for basic survival. It doesn't matter to your economy-only viewpoint but when you add hostile nations to the equation you have a country that's extremely vulnerable to trade embargoes, sea blockades and any other nation-level attack on its trade routes.
If we were to piss off some e.g. major African nation that nation could intercept our trade routes and leave our population starving. Remember that just because we aren't at war doesn't mean we don't need to worry about it. We aren't at war because we're strong. If we become weak then we become prey for more aggressive nations who want a slice of one of the world's biggest exporters.
Food is cheap enough for me, I don't give a damn if we could push it down another few percent (most of that money's gonna be swallowed by middlemen anyway) but I do care that we could risk the wellbeing of the entire nation over some stupid ideals.
Guess that's a difference between where BMW is deciding on laser headlights and where you are, in Germany there's a mandatory inspection of the car every two years that covers all kinds of defects. Also I believe any modifications to the car have to be inspected by the same authority immediately, any failures there have to be fixed immediately or the car is banned from being used on public roads.
By the looks of it about a third of the US has similar inspections. Considering cars can move across state boundaries I would really have expected that to be something mandated on the federal level instead of the state level.
I'm in Germany and there's no real talk about any govt policy really helping against the recession, the talk there is more about the strength of the economy and the unimpacted consumer spending simply letting the economy recover. The only thing that even looks like austerity is how surveys show that the people don't want the govt's tax surplus to be used for tax breaks (which many suspect are just a "bailout" for the liberal party who botched so many publicly important policies that their position in the parliaments is threatened*) and instead want it used for paying off debts after we've seen what debt problems can do to other nations. It's more of a preventative measure to keep debts from impacting the economy than any real austerity. Cuts to social programs within the last decade or so were aimed more at making unemployment unattractive (unemployment benefits were so great that too many people just decided to live the lazy life, those still exist but their numbers have gone down I believe) and making people want jobs instead of living off the dole.
Some of the govt stabilization programs during the recession helped weather it, the bank bailout loans for example have already been repaid by plenty of banks.
Our social market economy is seen as another govt-side stabilizer but that's not an active measure to combat the recessions, it's just the way things are structured here.
Of course all this is how the news report it, not necessarily how the back end looks like.
*= State level polls even suggest that the Pirate Party may be displacing the liberal party in Berlin. I guess the people who voted liberal for the personal freedoms instead of the economic ones are now going for the Pirate Party instead.
Buyers for Bitcoins probably compare the amount they buy to the possible maximum of Bitcoins, not the currently mined ones. Who cares that the active money supply is increasing when everybody knows what the final money supply will be? The mining of new Bitcoins will stop at some point and can never be continued past that point so people aren't worried about Weimar-style hyperinflation where the money supply grows at an exponential rate for who knows how long.
If the pool of possible Bitcoins were to increase suddenly then the value of Bitcoins would drop massively.
Communism produces neither.
iTunes may be well marketed but all the errors I get with it point at something other than "well developed".
The Wii was first revealed at the E3 2005 so they may have had the research done at that point already.
It's meant for traffic jams. Power up the lasers and clear the lane.
You can see the laser sight dot on a bright-ass headlight?
So why aren't the cars that have "not for street use" parts installed pulled from the road at the first safety inspection?
The light emission angles should probably be included in the road safety checks then. Too high an angle and your car is no longer road-worthy.
Depends on what you drive. Tanks use simple kinetic penetrators against other tanks so the cow would just have a rather large hole (possibly toxic if you use DU rounds).
Letting your whole food production wander off to cheaper workers is a terrible idea for the stability of the country (a trade problem could cause mass starvation and Germany has always been limited in long range trade as our navies could never stand up to more seafaring nations like Britain and France). Just because our farmers need to have enough money to buy TVs and other luxury goods they aren't somehow inefficient money eaters. Everything costs more when made here but that's only cost to the consumer. Our human workers still require the same amount of nutrition for the same actions. Our machinery is the same stuff they're using anywhere else (maybe even more modern and efficient). Our farming practices are set up to keep the ground usable. We don't burn down tropical rainforest just to grab new farmland because our old areas got depleted.
There are more costs than just the money exchanged at the supermarket. I don't disagree that international trade is heavily exploiting Africa by paying them so little they almost starve and thus pushing them to farm more cash crops and overfarm the land until it's unusable leading to rainforest burning but that's not going to get better by abolishing our own farming.
Here in Germany we believe that an unfettered free market is going to be significantly worse for us than the current government.
I guess the two year contracts must be a thing in your country because in mine we have a ton of pre-paid options and most people who don't phone a lot have pre-paid cards.
Would Apple really need such a stunt to get publicity for the next version of iProduct? People will line up around the whole block the moment Apple announces an iPhone 5.
Well, yeah, that's how communism works.
With shitty pay for people with power I'd expect corruption much more than stupidity. Many corrupt countries have their corruption because they give people power but don't pay them enough so the empowered people decide to supplement their income by bribery or blackmail. Keep your policemen and judges well paid.
I'd be more understanding if the design Apple is trying to protect wasn't such a damn simple one. It's pretty much reduced to the bare essentials for functioning. Once you strip something down to that level the options for varying designs diminish.
You can set AC scores or even hide AC posts entirely in your preferences.
That's inherited from Half-Life, the original version of that was also indexed and got censored with the humans sitting down and gibs being replaced by the enemy just fading out (having the original version I only got to see that by turning on the low violence option in the game, was kinda useful to see what you fragged with a grenade though).
Well, John Carmack has recently talked about the New Super Mario Bros games being the big hits in his household and since the original Super Mario Bros was the game Commander Keen was based on that might give id some impetus to finally deliver Keen 7: Goodbye Universe. That shouldn't take a huge team and if it was done right it could sell insane amounts (both NSMB games sold more than 20 million copies, that's more than a Call of Duty game!).
Eh, Doom, Shmoom. We got our FPS fix from Descent instead.