While I like my environment clean, I really don't like the excesses EPA went into with passenger cars.
Well, now, you can pay for your own lung cancer from car exhaust with your own money! Enjoy your freedom!
We are well into diminishing returns territory on both emissions and mileage - modern cars are good enough
Good enough for what, exactly? Good enough to cause massive pollution? Good enough to collectively warm up our environment? Good enough to cause illness?
Look it's fine if people want to kill themselves. Have a grand ol' time. But when your desire to kill yourself interferes with my desire to live a relatively long, healthy life, then we've got a problem. So, please, go suck on an exhaust pipe. Those of us interested in clean air would appreciate it.
The EPA must always balance the cost of regulations with the expected benefit.
So, we're putting dollar values on people's health? Great! I say that we should spend $0 to prevent you and your family from early death due to environmental pollution. I really don't want to have to spend another $2 when I fill up my car. Thanks!
If you want to see what life is like without capitalism, trying looking at Venezuela [battleswarmblog.com], where they're rioting because socialism can't provide enough food for them to eat.
Such incredible bullshit. There are plenty of countries (such as in northern Europe and Scandinavia) where people work less, have have a better quality of life because capitalism is tempered. Fuck you and your lying Fox News bullshit.
They think they're a retailer, and today, people want their retailers to know everything about them, and sell them things without having to think. Have you heard of a little company called "Amazon" that does exactly that?
Paper rots quite nicely, and can be grown again into more paper. Those electronic gadgets that will be around for thousands of years are certainly "infesting the earth".
It might be time for the e-book fad to slow down. They'll always be around, but I think that most regular readers have tried them at this point, and found something lacking.
Everybody has an anecdote. Mine is that I don't know anybody who reads books on a gadget.
Your supposition that Google wants money from people like you is inherently flawed. There's very little money to be made off of people like you. They're interesting in targeting people with real money, not mouth breathers who rely on government handouts.
Who said that Youtube wants "free speech"? I never read that youtube wants "free speech". That's what you said, not them. They're interested in making money. People with money are not Trump supporters, by and large. Those mouth breathers are generally poor, and on the government dole. There's little money to be had from them, and plenty to be lost from smarter people with actual incomes who don't want to have anything to do with all of that stupid shit.
But the thing is, companies have decided that it's not worth it to advertise to assholes like you. THEY DON'T WANT YOUR MONEY. As a small business owner, I also don't want money from assholes. It's got nothing about free speech or censorship, or whatever words that you're throwing around without understanding. Nobody wants to be associated with assholes like you, except for other assholes.
Not too many. One should read about the nuts and bolts of running any business, but entrepreneurship isn't really something that can be taught from a book. Either you got it or you don't.
It's so absurdly insulting. Why would you work somewhere like that? If somebody asked me to sign something like that, I'd leave immediately. I wouldn't ever want to work for a company that thought that was OK.
Many if not most employment contracts/agreements for software engineers and the like have verbiage that states that anything you come up with on company or personal time, belongs to the company.
I was a developer for more than a decade. Never saw this once. I'd laugh if I did.
This stupidity and greed will hurt small businesses that rely on Internet connectivity, but cannot afford (or have need for) a leased line. We cannot use any "cloud apps" in our business because we simply cannot get good connectivity in our part of town from our two providers (AT&T, Time-Warner). Our VPN's are severely limited because we cannot get reasonable, reliable bandwidth. The US is quickly turning into a 3rd world country.
Unlike health though, it is easier to host servers in other countries, which is all that will happen.
I wish that were the case. The problem in the US is the last mile connectivity. Servers can be anywhere. That hasn't changed. But our last mile connectivity is so bad in some places, that it's tough to do business.
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That's right, Mr. Wizard. The only alternative to the US is Venezuela.
Be sure not to compare US health to Europe, because your fairy tale about lowering rich people's taxes won't quite hold water, though.
While I like my environment clean, I really don't like the excesses EPA went into with passenger cars.
Well, now, you can pay for your own lung cancer from car exhaust with your own money! Enjoy your freedom!
We are well into diminishing returns territory on both emissions and mileage - modern cars are good enough
Good enough for what, exactly? Good enough to cause massive pollution? Good enough to collectively warm up our environment? Good enough to cause illness?
Look it's fine if people want to kill themselves. Have a grand ol' time. But when your desire to kill yourself interferes with my desire to live a relatively long, healthy life, then we've got a problem. So, please, go suck on an exhaust pipe. Those of us interested in clean air would appreciate it.
The EPA must always balance the cost of regulations with the expected benefit.
So, we're putting dollar values on people's health? Great! I say that we should spend $0 to prevent you and your family from early death due to environmental pollution. I really don't want to have to spend another $2 when I fill up my car. Thanks!
If you want to see what life is like without capitalism, trying looking at Venezuela [battleswarmblog.com], where they're rioting because socialism can't provide enough food for them to eat.
Such incredible bullshit. There are plenty of countries (such as in northern Europe and Scandinavia) where people work less, have have a better quality of life because capitalism is tempered. Fuck you and your lying Fox News bullshit.
So what percentage of the public wants to be that transparent?
What percentage buys shit from Amazon now?
Seriously, who the hell do they think they are!?
They think they're a retailer, and today, people want their retailers to know everything about them, and sell them things without having to think. Have you heard of a little company called "Amazon" that does exactly that?
The war on poverty has killed too many poor people.
Huh?
By that logic, we shouldn't teach anything that can't be tested? No phys ed? No art?
By that logic, why do we teach kids things they don't want to learn? Why not just teach them Snapchat?
What happened to Jared (his son-in-law)? I thought he was supposed to be modernizing the government.
I'm a grownup. I don't do "apps".
I still like my Windows Phone, and my next one will be a Windows Phone, as well. The UI is much better than the other two.
infest the earth
Paper rots quite nicely, and can be grown again into more paper. Those electronic gadgets that will be around for thousands of years are certainly "infesting the earth".
It might be time for the e-book fad to slow down. They'll always be around, but I think that most regular readers have tried them at this point, and found something lacking.
Everybody has an anecdote. Mine is that I don't know anybody who reads books on a gadget.
Your supposition that Google wants money from people like you is inherently flawed. There's very little money to be made off of people like you. They're interesting in targeting people with real money, not mouth breathers who rely on government handouts.
Who said that Youtube wants "free speech"? I never read that youtube wants "free speech". That's what you said, not them. They're interested in making money. People with money are not Trump supporters, by and large. Those mouth breathers are generally poor, and on the government dole. There's little money to be had from them, and plenty to be lost from smarter people with actual incomes who don't want to have anything to do with all of that stupid shit.
But the thing is, companies have decided that it's not worth it to advertise to assholes like you. THEY DON'T WANT YOUR MONEY. As a small business owner, I also don't want money from assholes. It's got nothing about free speech or censorship, or whatever words that you're throwing around without understanding. Nobody wants to be associated with assholes like you, except for other assholes.
Not too many. One should read about the nuts and bolts of running any business, but entrepreneurship isn't really something that can be taught from a book. Either you got it or you don't.
It's so absurdly insulting. Why would you work somewhere like that? If somebody asked me to sign something like that, I'd leave immediately. I wouldn't ever want to work for a company that thought that was OK.
Many if not most employment contracts/agreements for software engineers and the like have verbiage that states that anything you come up with on company or personal time, belongs to the company.
I was a developer for more than a decade. Never saw this once. I'd laugh if I did.
Most employment agreements are such that the company owns it even if it is outside of normal hours.
Oh, come on. What kind of idiots agree to something like this? I've never heard of such a thing.
Don't read a book. Go start a business. "Entrepreneurship" books are largely useless, in my opinion (as a successful entrepreneur).
Apple is about as culturally relevant as The Gap is a good place to find fashionable clothes. Both are bland and dumbed down for the idiot masses.
This stupidity and greed will hurt small businesses that rely on Internet connectivity, but cannot afford (or have need for) a leased line. We cannot use any "cloud apps" in our business because we simply cannot get good connectivity in our part of town from our two providers (AT&T, Time-Warner). Our VPN's are severely limited because we cannot get reasonable, reliable bandwidth. The US is quickly turning into a 3rd world country.
Unlike health though, it is easier to host servers in other countries, which is all that will happen.
I wish that were the case. The problem in the US is the last mile connectivity. Servers can be anywhere. That hasn't changed. But our last mile connectivity is so bad in some places, that it's tough to do business.