Given that multinationals are permitted to avoid taxes and extend patents and copyrights without work done, we meet the classic definition of a Mercantilist nation, but you're too focused on the concept that the Nation belongs to the Government, when it belongs to the WTO and their lackeys.
There's your tax-subsidized patent-owned-by-public answer.
Capitalism drives down costs.
Mercantalism, which Adam Smith, the father of Capitalism railed against, provides large players with greater rewards for inefficiencies propped up by people who claim to be Capitalists, but depend on the lack of competition to win them billions.
I for one am glad to our Antiguan overlords for restoring US Copyright to its original Constitutional period of 17 years with one renewal during the life of the author.
Now if only they could do the same for patents and restore them to 13 years with one renewal by the human author.
If Schindler's Jews had all been carrying GPS enabled cellphones around, there'd be a lot more of 'em today.
Not that I see how this has anything to do with the main thread, but . . . GODWIN!
Um. I think it means they'd be tracked down... faster.
But, thanks for playing.
The point is that the combination of abusive corporations in a quasi-governmental ReichStadt with absolute control of workers leads to abuses that can - and frequently are (see FoxConn) horrific.
Oh please - when it drops 3 feet of snow or more you just ski or use a skidoo.
Every real snow person knows that.
Driving a truck in 3 feet of snow is risky, especially with black ice on bridges.
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What gets me is that by simply removing bikes to their own lane, without taxpayer-subsidized parking that injures them (doored), all of which is paid for by property taxes anyway, the accident rate plummets.
But, after all, we should preserve roads for their original purpose - bicycles and horse-drawn wagons.
Look, nobody likes taxes, licensing restrictions, having to clean your car, or requiring you don't just hang out at the airport where people will pay tons of money.
The reasons we have those is that unlicensed cabs were a big problem.
What gets me is how many people around here actually drive to the airport, with just one bag, when it's usually faster and easier to take the light rail or bus there, instead of paying $20.
People called the Yakima Listening Center a wild fabrication back when I toured it in the 80s, but it was still there and still listening until it recently closed.
Look, you can pretend all you want, but I personally know what we do, and I've known it for a long long time.
You learn how to correlate data as part of tradecraft when you start. The fact that you personally have not seen such letters or such data is meaningless, because you never were supposed to see such things, and you have no idea how you find out. Nothing bad about that, but commenting on it not existing is just a sign you're incredibly naive.
Yet the use of these all pump carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
You know, the stuff that's making Australia burn, the south become hotter in summer, the glaciers to melt, and killing US crops and causing massive pollution in China which spreads to the western coastal US.
I never said there were no costs to energy - all forms of energy have downsides - all of them. Sticking your head in the tar sands ceased being an option sometime in the last decade. Wake up and smell the shade-grown coffee.
Btw, we in the West are producing more GDP in WA OR and CA than the rest of the USA is, because we have cheap energy, primarily from those cheaper hydro, wind, and solar sources you're so hell-bent against. We subsidize... you.
There's lots of proof, but you're not cleared to see it, and the use of warning letters specifically disallows you from talking about it after you've seen it.
(caveat: due to quirks in NATO regs I'm not bound by the same restrictions)
See, thing is, if you could just put an industrial electric turbine in a car, and then have some space left over for a passenger or two and some batteries, an electric car technically could go much much faster than a gasoline car.
It wouldn't go very far, though, but it would be a sweet sweet ride.
And since most people commute less than 10 miles to get to the office, this sounds like a pretty good deal if you live in an area where electricity comes from sources other than coal, oil, or natural gas. Wind turbines could charge fleets of these supercars up, and then we could all have an electric rocket supercar to get to work in.
Provided you didn't care about traffic laws, mind you.
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I found it went from version 40 to version 45 for both the 32 and 64 bit versions that work as Firefox plugins when the Firefox patch was added.
I stand by my statement.
Given that multinationals are permitted to avoid taxes and extend patents and copyrights without work done, we meet the classic definition of a Mercantilist nation, but you're too focused on the concept that the Nation belongs to the Government, when it belongs to the WTO and their lackeys.
Face it, we're all Serfs.
There's your tax-subsidized patent-owned-by-public answer.
Capitalism drives down costs.
Mercantalism, which Adam Smith, the father of Capitalism railed against, provides large players with greater rewards for inefficiencies propped up by people who claim to be Capitalists, but depend on the lack of competition to win them billions.
This is kind of funny, because the state with the fastest growth in electric cars, next to California, isn't on that list.
Washington State.
We set our electric cars on fire, cause we drive them on 11 instead of 10.
When you said eight states that have 25 percent of national car rentals, I think you meant to say 50 percent of US GDP.
Fixed it for you.
I for one am glad to our Antiguan overlords for restoring US Copyright to its original Constitutional period of 17 years with one renewal during the life of the author.
Now if only they could do the same for patents and restore them to 13 years with one renewal by the human author.
IMHO they meant to say:
Our robot cars are better than human cars, so long as nothing goes wrong and all the human cars are driven by drunks with road rage.
There, fixed it.
If at least one other American citizen reads your blog, you're a Journalist.
Period.
Reporting on how our government ignores our Rights under all the amendments in the Bill of Rights and the Geneva Conventions.
Everyone is a reporter now.
Everyone.
Hit Record.
I agree, sometimes it is good to have recorders.
Like on an Acela train today when a passenger recorded an "off the record" conversation between the former NSA chief and reporters.
Not off the record anymore.
He works/worked for us.
I'd much prefer to wear a cell wristband than dangle a cord from a watch.
Who uses watches, anyway?
That's so last century.
If Schindler's Jews had all been carrying GPS enabled cellphones around, there'd be a lot more of 'em today.
Not that I see how this has anything to do with the main thread, but . . . GODWIN!
Um. I think it means they'd be tracked down ... faster.
But, thanks for playing.
The point is that the combination of abusive corporations in a quasi-governmental ReichStadt with absolute control of workers leads to abuses that can - and frequently are (see FoxConn) horrific.
I think it points out kids nowadays don't really understand how things worked almost 100 years ago.
None of this involves the state at all. Nice job completely missing the point.
If you don't want to be monitored, don't take a job that involves operating equipment owned by someone else.
Neither did national socialist rule. That was all private enterprise, for the most part.
Try watching Schindler's List for how that works.
Hence, my point.
Er ist gut to work in workers paradise!
I am so glad we live in a police state where we are tracked and followed everywhere, and where we have always been at war with East Asia.
Silly privacy - only good for whiny people - strong workers need no rights ...
And every driver should wear one.
It makes you look like the Stig.
Oh please - when it drops 3 feet of snow or more you just ski or use a skidoo.
Every real snow person knows that.
Driving a truck in 3 feet of snow is risky, especially with black ice on bridges.
What gets me is that by simply removing bikes to their own lane, without taxpayer-subsidized parking that injures them (doored), all of which is paid for by property taxes anyway, the accident rate plummets.
But, after all, we should preserve roads for their original purpose - bicycles and horse-drawn wagons.
Have to agree.
Look, nobody likes taxes, licensing restrictions, having to clean your car, or requiring you don't just hang out at the airport where people will pay tons of money.
The reasons we have those is that unlicensed cabs were a big problem.
What gets me is how many people around here actually drive to the airport, with just one bag, when it's usually faster and easier to take the light rail or bus there, instead of paying $20.
According to today's Province in Vancouver, BC, it is faster to bike downtown than to drive.
Faster.
Think about that.
Remember,
"First Do No Evil, Unless It's Profitable"
People called the Yakima Listening Center a wild fabrication back when I toured it in the 80s, but it was still there and still listening until it recently closed.
Look, you can pretend all you want, but I personally know what we do, and I've known it for a long long time.
You learn how to correlate data as part of tradecraft when you start. The fact that you personally have not seen such letters or such data is meaningless, because you never were supposed to see such things, and you have no idea how you find out. Nothing bad about that, but commenting on it not existing is just a sign you're incredibly naive.
Yet the use of these all pump carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
You know, the stuff that's making Australia burn, the south become hotter in summer, the glaciers to melt, and killing US crops and causing massive pollution in China which spreads to the western coastal US.
I never said there were no costs to energy - all forms of energy have downsides - all of them. Sticking your head in the tar sands ceased being an option sometime in the last decade. Wake up and smell the shade-grown coffee.
Btw, we in the West are producing more GDP in WA OR and CA than the rest of the USA is, because we have cheap energy, primarily from those cheaper hydro, wind, and solar sources you're so hell-bent against. We subsidize ... you.
There's lots of proof, but you're not cleared to see it, and the use of warning letters specifically disallows you from talking about it after you've seen it.
(caveat: due to quirks in NATO regs I'm not bound by the same restrictions)
See, thing is, if you could just put an industrial electric turbine in a car, and then have some space left over for a passenger or two and some batteries, an electric car technically could go much much faster than a gasoline car.
It wouldn't go very far, though, but it would be a sweet sweet ride.
And since most people commute less than 10 miles to get to the office, this sounds like a pretty good deal if you live in an area where electricity comes from sources other than coal, oil, or natural gas. Wind turbines could charge fleets of these supercars up, and then we could all have an electric rocket supercar to get to work in.
Provided you didn't care about traffic laws, mind you.