Compostable alternatives do not (yet) exist. There are some on the market, but as I pointed out above, they generally contain language like "not for backyard composting" or "compostable in industrial facilities only". Most of them still contain plastics or are coated with them and the jury is still out on whether they are better or may even be worse (plastic granules and chemicals worse than plastic in production and decomposition).
Dishwashers work in low-volume, non-drive through and even there, (local) low-end restaurants generally aren't as clean as is required from a chain. Most rules that apply to chains don't apply to local restaurants regards hygiene and there will be an absolute media circus.
There are no viable alternatives that require no trash/greenhouse gas generation that I know off. There are 'green' disposables, they generally contain plastics and are chemically very similar to plastics so they won't decompose as fast while still gassing off during the process (methane in particular). The goal of these bills is to totally get rid of disposables. There is already a law that removes straws I think in Florida, not just an alternative to plastic straws, none (extant alternatives) are permitted.
Non-plastic fully compostable in a landfill utensils? Good luck, here are the disclosures on those so-called "green" compostable utensils: “Compostable in industrial facilities” “Check locally as these do not exist in many communities" "Not suitable for backyard composting"
Plastic utensils are off course overused, but will you make sure both the food and health industry sanitizes whatever other method available properly?
What is the cost of acquiring, operating and inspecting an autoclave system with the volume required for eg. a McDonalds. How will we deal with the massive amounts of trash and green house gasses metal utensils will generate for both more resource intensive production, heavier transportation and proper disposal (as well as people simply throwing them into the landfill-destined garbage)?
Perhaps we need to develop non-plastic, compostable utensils, but the same problem there applies, it gets wet in storage, it starts rotting, you get one in your kids' happy meal, who is liable for the hundreds of people with fungal infections and death if you can even identify the source? I heard fairly recently (not sure if it was local, national or international) about an asian restaurant getting in big trouble for reusing wooden chopsticks and potentially making a bunch of people sick.
These are very hard questions to ask, we've developed massive industries providing massive economic benefits on the back of something as simple as a plastic straw and eating utensils.
As to 1) Poor people in the US are doing a LOT better, especially compared to poor people in the EU, we're only surpassed by Luxembourg and Switzerland as far as amount of disposable income at the 'poverty level' (based on OECD and UNICEF data) with the average US person at the poverty level, having ~$18,000 in disposable income (average income being ~$25,000 for a family of 4, but the assisted income (housing assistance, food stamps, free health care etc) being a lot higher)
2) Exactly, hence why UNICEF and the like measure disposable income instead of plain dollar values. Life expectancy is no longer growing partially because we've capped it, partially because we're dying due to our own lavishness, a lot more people die in the US due to heart disease. People in the US aren't dying of lack of food, it's too much food. Bankruptcies in the US are now 1/3 the rate they were in the 80s while in many places in the EU have seen an uptick with some exceptions like Germany they are 3x as high.
Again, all of this is public data. The left likes to take short term statistics such as a recession as 'proof' without taking in causes, effects or comparing it to others. Sure, electronics 'feel' bad as a cheap good because the side effects but they have improved the lives of so many while places like Europe that have historically pushed away foreign investment and foreign products, are doing a lot worse than we think.
The only people that think Europe is a socialist paradise is Bernie Sanders, but even Denmark told him: "we're not socialist" and the Nordic countries, which are 'so great' have actually stagnated ever since introducing broad socialist reforms. They're living off oil and natural resources, I actually did a case study in the early 90's on Norway's timber industry which together with the oil industry was (and still is) a major driver within their economy, until the EU started regulating them.
There's a big difference between building a stadium and building a company. A stadium hardly takes up any jobs, people go there to spend money (taking money OUT of the local economy), people don't want to live near it and generally, once the venture goes bankrupt it leaves the city to clean up and maintain an otherwise useless building.
Tax breaks are just there to bring the company, sure it's a benefit to the company but indirectly and long term, it's a good deal unless the business goes bankrupt. In this case, NYC wouldn't see any tax income from Amazon to begin with, if it reduces the tax bill by $3B, it will see ~$0.6B in income taxes per year and the estimated $2.5B/y in business it brings to the area. It's not "money out of anyone's pocket", it's just taxes it wouldn't have collected anyway.
I think religion should be taxed unless it brings benefit to the local community, in that case, (good) churches generally take care of a bunch of stuff local governments simply suck at - providing food and shelter for the poor etc etc. In most areas, a church spends between $200-800k/year on social programs for a mere $10,000/year in property taxes and maybe $50k in income taxes for the full time staff.
The $3B was not a 'donation' to Amazon, it's a tax break. What do you get in return: 25,000 high-tech jobs (average income in NYC for low-end tech jobs $125,000-150,000 that's ~$25,000/year in sales, property and income taxes) or $0.6B not to mention the cleaners, the feeders, the builders etc.
Seattle's GDP has more than doubled since Amazon got big over the last 15 years. Sure, it's not "just" Amazon, but it sure has a big impact.
That study (and one other one that keeps getting quoted above) has been heavily debunked.
Ed Conard, has a nice expose on those studies that ignore the relative worth of the money, healthcare and other tax benefits, smaller families (less mouths to feed) etc. You can buy more goods cheaper now than you could in the 70's and 80's. We live in a relative welfare state in the US (we're dying not because lack of healthcare, but either too much intervention and/or lifestyle choice issues).
They see a video and instantly believe it. The water has to go through a phase transition and shed a ton of energy doing that (something like 500 cal/g) and depending on the size of the droplet will take at least 2-30 minutes, not seconds.
I just had someone argue that a candle could heat an entire room in case of emergency, you just had to put it on fire bricks and a flower pot, the bricks would heat up (somehow) and give off heat.
Hard work is profitable for the top 1% of criminals. The rest make less than minimum wage or end up dead or in jail. The prospects aren't good for most criminals.
It's also a vicious cycle. Poor people do crime because... they're poor? or because they're criminals? and then the system puts them in jail and that keeps them poor because they're poor? or because they're criminals?
America is the greatest example of how poor people can become very rich through hard work and honesty. There is massive economic mobility, regardless of your race, the largest predictor of success being 1) whether you have both parents at the home, 2) how hard you're willing to work and 3) whether or not your parents are criminals.
In most places in the west, you can have all the necessities and then some with minimum incomes (either unemployment or otherwise). The rates are calculated based on the price of bread, income, communications etc.
In most parts of the US, actually in all parts of the US, it will provide for a BASIC rent if the state doesn't outright pay your rent (like NY and CA where rents can be outrageous in the cities).
Plenty of people live at the minimum income range across the entire US, whether or not they have a job, the majority of them does not end up stealing their way through life. This notion that you are required to steal from the rich because you are poor is a myth and extends well into the left mythos, where even if you do well, you are encouraged to steal from the rich because they don't "deserve" their wealth.
How many people is Bill Gates employing? Divide the cost of his plane ticket across all employment Microsoft creates (and thanks to Windows this is a LOT bigger than Microsoft)
I don't think you understand semiconductors. Creating them requires massive chemical waste. Recycling also requires massive chemical waste. A single factory can poison an entire area for decades (see China).
Yet, there are many, many instances where people violate their IRB guidelines and yet we don't throw away all that data either, we just amend the IRB to include the established practice, even if it's ethically dubious. Most studies will even have language like: once the data is collected, even if you retract consent or an oversight body discontinues this study, we'll continue using the data anyway for various purposes.
The main point of contention here is that the Chinese Government and Chinese culture in general has a different culture on ethics and human life. As far as the political far-left and the right in the US are removed from each other on the ethics of ending a human life (whether right before or right after birth or ending a long bout of suffering), so also is the US and China removed from each other on the value of the individual as opposed to the 'good of society' and criminals etc as opposed to non-criminals.
There are dissenting voices in China too, since adopting the 'western' cultures gives a better chance at personal improvement and riches but many 'elders' in China are complaining that this focus on individualism is destroying their culture and community.
Plenty companies do use the DDNS feature but thatâ(TM)s LESS secure than a device dialing into a cloud app. At least you can make efforts to keep a central app secure and updated and there is nothing dangling (directly) on the Internet. With DDNS, your device gets anyone direct port/IP access.
You can actually buy self-destructing safes, they're not illegal. You wouldn't be charged with obstruction as long as the documents were in there before the warrant was served. You could be charged with various other 'crimes' such as if you run a business and can't produce certain records, you may not be able to defend a tax or contract lawsuit that includes your requirement to produce said documents.
On the other hand he was in India. Not sure if you want to go to a hospital in rural India as you most likely will get more infections if you're already immunocompromised. Even the US has problems with hospital-grade diseases.
Or perhaps your perpetual finding of bias is completely manufactured. All the data shows that police actually have an inverse bias towards poor and minorities, you're more likely to get shot or arrested during an encounter if you're white than if you're black.
This has always been typical weather, it's actually a pretty mild winter right now. The problem is a 24h news cycle that needs a distraction from the real issues at hand, both for the left and the right, for all branches of government across all countries.
It is only of interest if you are allowing any user to execute random code. Eg. desktops (JavaScript and the like) and cloud/virtual servers MAY be affected by it. But for the vast majority of servers and environments, if these bugs are exploited, you typically have bigger issues to fix.
Chocolatey is highly reliant on.NET and PowerShell (v4). It doesn't work on XP and is all around lousy on Windows Vista, 7 and 8. 10 is workable but it requires you trusting someone else to package/publish binaries, it also requires you to 'trust' the environment and will often break whenever your Windows environment isn't what the packager has assumed.
Although this seems to be normal to accept from deployment scenarios within the Windows ecosystem (such as SCCM and other commercial offerings), Brew (can) compile your binaries from scratch so you can relatively simple verify that what you get is what you want and hasn't been tampered with and should accept most of whatever your environment defaults are.
Uhm, yes. You can say no to being interrogated and you'll be held/bailed until trial. Never talk to the police, a jury trial is the only place you have the opportunity to talk, anything you say to the police can and will be used against you, never to your benefit.
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Compostable alternatives do not (yet) exist. There are some on the market, but as I pointed out above, they generally contain language like "not for backyard composting" or "compostable in industrial facilities only". Most of them still contain plastics or are coated with them and the jury is still out on whether they are better or may even be worse (plastic granules and chemicals worse than plastic in production and decomposition).
Dishwashers work in low-volume, non-drive through and even there, (local) low-end restaurants generally aren't as clean as is required from a chain. Most rules that apply to chains don't apply to local restaurants regards hygiene and there will be an absolute media circus.
There are no viable alternatives that require no trash/greenhouse gas generation that I know off. There are 'green' disposables, they generally contain plastics and are chemically very similar to plastics so they won't decompose as fast while still gassing off during the process (methane in particular). The goal of these bills is to totally get rid of disposables. There is already a law that removes straws I think in Florida, not just an alternative to plastic straws, none (extant alternatives) are permitted.
Non-plastic fully compostable in a landfill utensils? Good luck, here are the disclosures on those so-called "green" compostable utensils:
“Compostable in industrial facilities”
“Check locally as these do not exist in many communities"
"Not suitable for backyard composting"
Plastic utensils are off course overused, but will you make sure both the food and health industry sanitizes whatever other method available properly?
What is the cost of acquiring, operating and inspecting an autoclave system with the volume required for eg. a McDonalds. How will we deal with the massive amounts of trash and green house gasses metal utensils will generate for both more resource intensive production, heavier transportation and proper disposal (as well as people simply throwing them into the landfill-destined garbage)?
Perhaps we need to develop non-plastic, compostable utensils, but the same problem there applies, it gets wet in storage, it starts rotting, you get one in your kids' happy meal, who is liable for the hundreds of people with fungal infections and death if you can even identify the source? I heard fairly recently (not sure if it was local, national or international) about an asian restaurant getting in big trouble for reusing wooden chopsticks and potentially making a bunch of people sick.
These are very hard questions to ask, we've developed massive industries providing massive economic benefits on the back of something as simple as a plastic straw and eating utensils.
As to
1) Poor people in the US are doing a LOT better, especially compared to poor people in the EU, we're only surpassed by Luxembourg and Switzerland as far as amount of disposable income at the 'poverty level' (based on OECD and UNICEF data) with the average US person at the poverty level, having ~$18,000 in disposable income (average income being ~$25,000 for a family of 4, but the assisted income (housing assistance, food stamps, free health care etc) being a lot higher)
2) Exactly, hence why UNICEF and the like measure disposable income instead of plain dollar values. Life expectancy is no longer growing partially because we've capped it, partially because we're dying due to our own lavishness, a lot more people die in the US due to heart disease. People in the US aren't dying of lack of food, it's too much food. Bankruptcies in the US are now 1/3 the rate they were in the 80s while in many places in the EU have seen an uptick with some exceptions like Germany they are 3x as high.
Again, all of this is public data. The left likes to take short term statistics such as a recession as 'proof' without taking in causes, effects or comparing it to others. Sure, electronics 'feel' bad as a cheap good because the side effects but they have improved the lives of so many while places like Europe that have historically pushed away foreign investment and foreign products, are doing a lot worse than we think.
The only people that think Europe is a socialist paradise is Bernie Sanders, but even Denmark told him: "we're not socialist" and the Nordic countries, which are 'so great' have actually stagnated ever since introducing broad socialist reforms. They're living off oil and natural resources, I actually did a case study in the early 90's on Norway's timber industry which together with the oil industry was (and still is) a major driver within their economy, until the EU started regulating them.
There's a big difference between building a stadium and building a company. A stadium hardly takes up any jobs, people go there to spend money (taking money OUT of the local economy), people don't want to live near it and generally, once the venture goes bankrupt it leaves the city to clean up and maintain an otherwise useless building.
Tax breaks are just there to bring the company, sure it's a benefit to the company but indirectly and long term, it's a good deal unless the business goes bankrupt. In this case, NYC wouldn't see any tax income from Amazon to begin with, if it reduces the tax bill by $3B, it will see ~$0.6B in income taxes per year and the estimated $2.5B/y in business it brings to the area. It's not "money out of anyone's pocket", it's just taxes it wouldn't have collected anyway.
I think religion should be taxed unless it brings benefit to the local community, in that case, (good) churches generally take care of a bunch of stuff local governments simply suck at - providing food and shelter for the poor etc etc. In most areas, a church spends between $200-800k/year on social programs for a mere $10,000/year in property taxes and maybe $50k in income taxes for the full time staff.
The $3B was not a 'donation' to Amazon, it's a tax break. What do you get in return: 25,000 high-tech jobs (average income in NYC for low-end tech jobs $125,000-150,000 that's ~$25,000/year in sales, property and income taxes) or $0.6B not to mention the cleaners, the feeders, the builders etc.
Seattle's GDP has more than doubled since Amazon got big over the last 15 years. Sure, it's not "just" Amazon, but it sure has a big impact.
That study (and one other one that keeps getting quoted above) has been heavily debunked.
Ed Conard, has a nice expose on those studies that ignore the relative worth of the money, healthcare and other tax benefits, smaller families (less mouths to feed) etc. You can buy more goods cheaper now than you could in the 70's and 80's. We live in a relative welfare state in the US (we're dying not because lack of healthcare, but either too much intervention and/or lifestyle choice issues).
They see a video and instantly believe it. The water has to go through a phase transition and shed a ton of energy doing that (something like 500 cal/g) and depending on the size of the droplet will take at least 2-30 minutes, not seconds.
I just had someone argue that a candle could heat an entire room in case of emergency, you just had to put it on fire bricks and a flower pot, the bricks would heat up (somehow) and give off heat.
Hard work is profitable for the top 1% of criminals. The rest make less than minimum wage or end up dead or in jail. The prospects aren't good for most criminals.
It's also a vicious cycle. Poor people do crime because ... they're poor? or because they're criminals? and then the system puts them in jail and that keeps them poor because they're poor? or because they're criminals?
America is the greatest example of how poor people can become very rich through hard work and honesty. There is massive economic mobility, regardless of your race, the largest predictor of success being 1) whether you have both parents at the home, 2) how hard you're willing to work and 3) whether or not your parents are criminals.
In most places in the west, you can have all the necessities and then some with minimum incomes (either unemployment or otherwise). The rates are calculated based on the price of bread, income, communications etc.
In most parts of the US, actually in all parts of the US, it will provide for a BASIC rent if the state doesn't outright pay your rent (like NY and CA where rents can be outrageous in the cities).
Plenty of people live at the minimum income range across the entire US, whether or not they have a job, the majority of them does not end up stealing their way through life. This notion that you are required to steal from the rich because you are poor is a myth and extends well into the left mythos, where even if you do well, you are encouraged to steal from the rich because they don't "deserve" their wealth.
Net neutrality on your single-source monopoly provider is more important than allowing actual competition.
How many people is Bill Gates employing? Divide the cost of his plane ticket across all employment Microsoft creates (and thanks to Windows this is a LOT bigger than Microsoft)
I don't think you understand semiconductors. Creating them requires massive chemical waste. Recycling also requires massive chemical waste. A single factory can poison an entire area for decades (see China).
The right has moved significantly to the left.
These leftists start sounding more and more like conspiracy theorists.
Yet, there are many, many instances where people violate their IRB guidelines and yet we don't throw away all that data either, we just amend the IRB to include the established practice, even if it's ethically dubious. Most studies will even have language like: once the data is collected, even if you retract consent or an oversight body discontinues this study, we'll continue using the data anyway for various purposes.
The main point of contention here is that the Chinese Government and Chinese culture in general has a different culture on ethics and human life. As far as the political far-left and the right in the US are removed from each other on the ethics of ending a human life (whether right before or right after birth or ending a long bout of suffering), so also is the US and China removed from each other on the value of the individual as opposed to the 'good of society' and criminals etc as opposed to non-criminals.
There are dissenting voices in China too, since adopting the 'western' cultures gives a better chance at personal improvement and riches but many 'elders' in China are complaining that this focus on individualism is destroying their culture and community.
Plenty companies do use the DDNS feature but thatâ(TM)s LESS secure than a device dialing into a cloud app. At least you can make efforts to keep a central app secure and updated and there is nothing dangling (directly) on the Internet. With DDNS, your device gets anyone direct port/IP access.
You can actually buy self-destructing safes, they're not illegal. You wouldn't be charged with obstruction as long as the documents were in there before the warrant was served. You could be charged with various other 'crimes' such as if you run a business and can't produce certain records, you may not be able to defend a tax or contract lawsuit that includes your requirement to produce said documents.
On the other hand he was in India. Not sure if you want to go to a hospital in rural India as you most likely will get more infections if you're already immunocompromised. Even the US has problems with hospital-grade diseases.
Or perhaps your perpetual finding of bias is completely manufactured. All the data shows that police actually have an inverse bias towards poor and minorities, you're more likely to get shot or arrested during an encounter if you're white than if you're black.
This has always been typical weather, it's actually a pretty mild winter right now. The problem is a 24h news cycle that needs a distraction from the real issues at hand, both for the left and the right, for all branches of government across all countries.
It is only of interest if you are allowing any user to execute random code. Eg. desktops (JavaScript and the like) and cloud/virtual servers MAY be affected by it. But for the vast majority of servers and environments, if these bugs are exploited, you typically have bigger issues to fix.
Chocolatey is highly reliant on .NET and PowerShell (v4). It doesn't work on XP and is all around lousy on Windows Vista, 7 and 8. 10 is workable but it requires you trusting someone else to package/publish binaries, it also requires you to 'trust' the environment and will often break whenever your Windows environment isn't what the packager has assumed.
Although this seems to be normal to accept from deployment scenarios within the Windows ecosystem (such as SCCM and other commercial offerings), Brew (can) compile your binaries from scratch so you can relatively simple verify that what you get is what you want and hasn't been tampered with and should accept most of whatever your environment defaults are.
Uhm, yes. You can say no to being interrogated and you'll be held/bailed until trial. Never talk to the police, a jury trial is the only place you have the opportunity to talk, anything you say to the police can and will be used against you, never to your benefit.