Homes are a subsidized tax break for the top 10 percent of our society, paid for by the renter class and those who pay taxes (usually the bottom 95 percent).
They do limit your moving options, since your cost out is higher than cost in for the first 2-3 years, or 10 years if you buy high and sell low (approx 7 year cycle) like most people do.
That said, for most people aren't in the bottom 10 percent, they make sense. Until they seize the house on a made up pretext.
Look, if you do win, you'll burn through it very fast and end up no better, and with fewer friends and upset relatives than if you didn't bother at all.
That's what happens.
Raffles on the other hand, since they return 100-400 percent of the expected value, tend to do a lot better.
(caveat - I have won raffles, lotteries, and many forms of gambling myself, but that has nothing to do with your odds)
Fairly easy to do that already, though. Problem is people try to take the whole bottle in one unit, which shows up as a vacuum area on the scans. If you switch to flat or tubular bladders, you can use shoes or purse handles or briefcase handles or backpack parts to move the same amount of liquid.
You're thinking of the single stage versions that go from the surface to earth orbit. Multi-stage (platform) is currently possible, and viable for lunar at the moment, and we're almost at the point where we could do a Mars version. Depends on how you lift and the speed and wind profiles. Switch to a balloon method - hydrogen gets you high enough that the air resistance drops so that you can go higher.
You confuse "difficult" "non-elegant" engineering problems with "impossible" problems. It's not impossible. Just not elegant or simple.
The first part of the lift cycle uses the most energy, after all.
Depends on the feed protocols. Would be far easier to change the text and color displays, and have the headset send back an "override: incorrect identification" message back to the system. This "clears" the subject long enough for them to proceed and confuses, due to high levels of mismatch. Any system without such overrides would be non-functional, due to real world constraints.
Basic application of social engineering - find the most common override that shuts or delays the security and use that. Don't upgrade from BAD GUY to VIP, upgrade from BAD GUY to NORMAL or from NORMAL to VIP. Play the numbers.
(caveat: none of this will impact real world risks, which are already set up for failure)
I'm a bit concerned about the fusion source materials. Would have to cost them out cradle to grave as well, including their processing before and after. Since it's still in test phase, am not going to weigh in on a process that's only partially complete.
The problem is the "they" you refer to. Different "they" groups exist. Isolated spaceships or military bases with difficult logisitics for fuel supply might find the cost/benefit ratios different. Places dependent on coal with no ready supply of wind or solar PV or solar passive might have different values.
The problem is that any real measurement of global warming impact has to be done using the Cradle-to-Grave methodology to be true. The mining process is fairly bad in impacts, and the 10,000 year storage and movement and cleanup dilemma makes it a non-starter.
Now, don't get me wrong, I've owned nuclear fission utilities in the past. But it's highly subsidized and not a good choice at all.
On the upside, nuclear fusion research is promising here at the UW, so if your heart is set on nuclear, maybe fusion will pencil out.
I can see it now, the inevitable Nationwide commercial, as the inevitable lawsuits against self-driving cars occur, when they run over kids and pets who "shouldn't have been there".
This is true. More than 98 percent of the wear and tear on bridges and roads is from giant trailers and large trucks used for freight, not from cars or SUVs or trucks of lower GVW.
The large rigs are moving to electric and biodiesel (source: PACCAR, which manufactures them, and is here).
No, seriously, I don't know what it's like in the empty states but in the growing GDP powerhouses that are the tech cities, people are just not using cars at all.
They might rent a car once in a while, but most of them use transit, bike, walk, take Bolt, take the High Speed train (if it exists), and maybe fly to a place that's far away.
People are already adapting. You're confused because the deadenders aren't adapting.
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There are real privacy laws in America.
Just ask Canada. It's a Right in the Canadian Constitution.
Heck, even Mexico has more privacy rights than the US does. ... oh, you thought the US was America. I'll tell Brazil they belong to Europe ...
You don't need your TV to monitor your conversation so that you get even less exercise than pressing a button.
You don't need a smartphone if all you do is listen to music and get bus times and stock quotes and news briefs.
Embrace Dumbness. Reject Smart Technology.
Besides, we're already recording you and using your cell and phone and Net providers to track you. Don't help us even more.
This includes answering those stupid FB polls that just let us collect more data on you.
Rip FB out of your phone.
lol say that to the people who bought a home in toronto or vancover in the past 15 years. quadruple their investment
try Alberta
the Vancouver bubble is mostly due to people preparing to flee from China, or move assets out for the next inevitable crackdown.
Homes are a subsidized tax break for the top 10 percent of our society, paid for by the renter class and those who pay taxes (usually the bottom 95 percent).
They do limit your moving options, since your cost out is higher than cost in for the first 2-3 years, or 10 years if you buy high and sell low (approx 7 year cycle) like most people do.
That said, for most people aren't in the bottom 10 percent, they make sense. Until they seize the house on a made up pretext.
Sigh.
Look, if you do win, you'll burn through it very fast and end up no better, and with fewer friends and upset relatives than if you didn't bother at all.
That's what happens.
Raffles on the other hand, since they return 100-400 percent of the expected value, tend to do a lot better.
(caveat - I have won raffles, lotteries, and many forms of gambling myself, but that has nothing to do with your odds)
They'll enable them next year.
Fairly easy to do that already, though. Problem is people try to take the whole bottle in one unit, which shows up as a vacuum area on the scans. If you switch to flat or tubular bladders, you can use shoes or purse handles or briefcase handles or backpack parts to move the same amount of liquid.
You're thinking of the single stage versions that go from the surface to earth orbit. Multi-stage (platform) is currently possible, and viable for lunar at the moment, and we're almost at the point where we could do a Mars version. Depends on how you lift and the speed and wind profiles. Switch to a balloon method - hydrogen gets you high enough that the air resistance drops so that you can go higher.
You confuse "difficult" "non-elegant" engineering problems with "impossible" problems. It's not impossible. Just not elegant or simple.
The first part of the lift cycle uses the most energy, after all.
Depends on the feed protocols. Would be far easier to change the text and color displays, and have the headset send back an "override: incorrect identification" message back to the system. This "clears" the subject long enough for them to proceed and confuses, due to high levels of mismatch. Any system without such overrides would be non-functional, due to real world constraints.
Basic application of social engineering - find the most common override that shuts or delays the security and use that. Don't upgrade from BAD GUY to VIP, upgrade from BAD GUY to NORMAL or from NORMAL to VIP. Play the numbers.
(caveat: none of this will impact real world risks, which are already set up for failure)
Not that hard either, just use the NSA backdoors in the protocol and hijack the streams
Then their GGs would show a nice little old lady going thru security instead of the actual person.
Or maybe show they have credentials for pass thru.
For every solution, their is a workaround.
Doubt it, without massive governmental subsidies or cloaked subsidies.
It's all a choice. You can run monofilament cables to orbital satellites, but we don't, due to perceived and actual risks.
I'm a bit concerned about the fusion source materials. Would have to cost them out cradle to grave as well, including their processing before and after. Since it's still in test phase, am not going to weigh in on a process that's only partially complete.
The problem is the "they" you refer to. Different "they" groups exist. Isolated spaceships or military bases with difficult logisitics for fuel supply might find the cost/benefit ratios different. Places dependent on coal with no ready supply of wind or solar PV or solar passive might have different values.
All inputs must be measured, including cleanups for their processes. Not including them makes fission appear artificially carbon-neutral.
Face it, you live in 1984.
The problem is that any real measurement of global warming impact has to be done using the Cradle-to-Grave methodology to be true. The mining process is fairly bad in impacts, and the 10,000 year storage and movement and cleanup dilemma makes it a non-starter.
Now, don't get me wrong, I've owned nuclear fission utilities in the past. But it's highly subsidized and not a good choice at all.
On the upside, nuclear fusion research is promising here at the UW, so if your heart is set on nuclear, maybe fusion will pencil out.
Excuse me, I'm making a local hacker site to "upload" "fixes" to your car's OS.
Ooh, another one bit! Now to do Car Wars (SJG) IRL!
But we all knew that.
However: will anyone DO anything about it?
Does Scotland have to secede to get your attention?
I can see it now, the inevitable Nationwide commercial, as the inevitable lawsuits against self-driving cars occur, when they run over kids and pets who "shouldn't have been there".
Was it a hacker? That excuse won't fly.
One bus is equal to four lanes of cars. Not worried. People don't weigh that much - freight does.
Or at least it did when I loaded and unloaded FTL and LTL for rail/truck.
Try biking. In Seattle it's often faster to bike than it is to drive. Nobody who lives here uses the Interstates.
This is true. More than 98 percent of the wear and tear on bridges and roads is from giant trailers and large trucks used for freight, not from cars or SUVs or trucks of lower GVW.
The large rigs are moving to electric and biodiesel (source: PACCAR, which manufactures them, and is here).
A friend of mine who just moved to Boston was commenting on that today. She was shocked how packed MBTA is now, having lived in Seattle for years.
No, seriously, I don't know what it's like in the empty states but in the growing GDP powerhouses that are the tech cities, people are just not using cars at all.
They might rent a car once in a while, but most of them use transit, bike, walk, take Bolt, take the High Speed train (if it exists), and maybe fly to a place that's far away.
People are already adapting. You're confused because the deadenders aren't adapting.
...which includes your home address, as does the IP address registration for your phone and home access.
those can be forged. Even with IPv6. Just use an IoT bridge device.
People push for laws that benefit them
Corporations aren't People in Canada.