Boeing has a TON of suppliers. High tech vehicles tend to require a gigantic network of companies to produce. Where I live most of the companies are focused on various goods and services that VW buys.
It's not as easy as that, first there's demand, then there's production, then there's payment and then there's consumption. Miss any of the first three and you've got an economic failure.
Their currency is pegged against the US dollar, it cannot increase.China could see inflation that would hurt their export ability but it's quite possible that a lot of their factories would migrate to another cheap country then.
Meh, people won't stop lending you money for a LOOOOONG time. The most the US got against it was a "negative outlook" from Standard & Poor's for its AAA rating. Greece is down to B (barely above being considered junk) and still gets credit.
I'm Lutheran on paper but I don't think of various protestant groups as related beyond their disdain for the Catholic church. Over here the Lutherans were just as happy to exterminate other protestant groups as the Catholics were (centuries ago, of course).
My father loves to complain how the US has no standard for what it takes to be a priest. The Lutheran and Catholic church both have schools that one has to have gone through to be qualified for priesthood so the preachers actually know what the religion is about and how to present it properly, the TV preachers in the US are free to make up any nonsense they want without being stripped of their title.
Literal bible interpretation is a protestant thing, to varying degrees among the various groups (the American flavours seem to be the most extreme in this regard). The Catholic church interprets many parts of the Bible as metaphors and they don't consider Genesis to be how it really went down (who was there to write that down anyway?). The Catholic church sees evolution as a valid way for God to create the life on Earth and an omniscient and omnipotent deity could easily make sure the universe forms as it did just by configuring the big bang properly, never mind influencing the destinies of individual parts that may need a little prodding to get right.
It's because many issues foster an us-vs-them mentality where it's either kill-the-market or kill-the-government, never anything in between. Meanwhile the Social Market Economy works just fine in some countries.
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That would be less crazy than the quotes on FSTDT...
No, they actually boasted about getting a loan themselves at 4% interest.
This is just to get funding for their teledildonics project, of course.
The rest of us would like a way to punch people over the internet but I doubt this robot will enable that.
Since they're actually a UK-based company, though, I'm not sure this helps.
Europe has very different laws on software patents though.
It says "smart car", right?
I wish them luck with their lawsuit against Microsoft then.
By the time all that has gone though millions will have starved already.
Greece is pretty close to defaulting on loans yet they can still get new ones. Better?
Food prices go up and people starve.
Boeing has a TON of suppliers. High tech vehicles tend to require a gigantic network of companies to produce. Where I live most of the companies are focused on various goods and services that VW buys.
It's not as easy as that, first there's demand, then there's production, then there's payment and then there's consumption. Miss any of the first three and you've got an economic failure.
Their currency is pegged against the US dollar, it cannot increase.China could see inflation that would hurt their export ability but it's quite possible that a lot of their factories would migrate to another cheap country then.
Meh, people won't stop lending you money for a LOOOOONG time. The most the US got against it was a "negative outlook" from Standard & Poor's for its AAA rating. Greece is down to B (barely above being considered junk) and still gets credit.
Also totalitarian regimes don't prevent creativity, Nazi Germany invented a lot of things that are still in use today.
And where would they go in order to avoid paying into a social system?
I'm Lutheran on paper but I don't think of various protestant groups as related beyond their disdain for the Catholic church. Over here the Lutherans were just as happy to exterminate other protestant groups as the Catholics were (centuries ago, of course).
My father loves to complain how the US has no standard for what it takes to be a priest. The Lutheran and Catholic church both have schools that one has to have gone through to be qualified for priesthood so the preachers actually know what the religion is about and how to present it properly, the TV preachers in the US are free to make up any nonsense they want without being stripped of their title.
Literal bible interpretation is a protestant thing, to varying degrees among the various groups (the American flavours seem to be the most extreme in this regard). The Catholic church interprets many parts of the Bible as metaphors and they don't consider Genesis to be how it really went down (who was there to write that down anyway?). The Catholic church sees evolution as a valid way for God to create the life on Earth and an omniscient and omnipotent deity could easily make sure the universe forms as it did just by configuring the big bang properly, never mind influencing the destinies of individual parts that may need a little prodding to get right.
So why exactly is it a bad idea to give people a reason to move closer to their job and waste less fuel and road quality on their commute?
Or it means that they figured the bandwidth your connection provides is already a sufficient cap.
My connection can do at most 963 GB per month and that is if it's used at 100% throughput permanently.
I believe that's common in the USA and it's one of the reasons the US cellphone situation is considered outdated by Europe and Japan.
It's because many issues foster an us-vs-them mentality where it's either kill-the-market or kill-the-government, never anything in between. Meanwhile the Social Market Economy works just fine in some countries.
Consider yourself lucky, my house only gets 3MBit/s DSL.
Hack? That is what you call vigilantism? The least you could do is tar and feather the bastards.
There's a reason the EU has separate rules for non-negotiated contracts.