Every time you buy a good or service from China, Japan, Australia, Canada, the EU, or from some US states (the ones that actually are 60 percent of the US economy), you're paying a carbon tax.
If you don't have a local carbon tax, they get to keep the money in the other country and spend it there. If you had a carbon tax, it would be spent in your local economy.
Thanks for helping everyone else out by not having a local carbon tax!
Oh, I remember that. That was that thing for idiots who were convinced it was easier to carry around a 6 ounce, $1000 phone than a free 10 gram debit card because "tapping" was somehow infinitely less physically exhausting than "swiping".
So how's that working out for them?
Not sure, but they bundled it into the latest iOS 11.2 iPhone update.
If I could only get CBC over the air on my HDTV antenna, which receives higher quality signals (1080p) than my cable provider (1080i), I would cancel my cable entirely.
98 percent of the channels could disappear, because it turns out most of the ones I want are already over the air.
It's not that, it's just that the comments were faked to the FCC by anti-NetNeutraility bots, and they're concerned that America is waking up to their criminal activities in hacking the "vote".
Look, most wind and solar are built in the US. I think you incorrectly believe that all wind turbines and solar panels are built in China. A lot of the patents and the facilities for making them are here. In various states, but especially in the county where Microsoft has their HQ.
Look, this whole place is just filled with construction cranes, although Dubai has us beat on that score.
But are these passivhaus green buildings? Do they have solar roofs (yes, I know, you incorrectly think Seattle and Redmond are bad places for solar, but we get 80 to 100 percent solar output all year round, even when it's cloudy as the dickens and mist rains are falling)? Will they have lofted wind turbines like you see in Big Hero 6? On the Eastside, they aren't as green as Seattle City Light is, so that's a major concern.
Also, how many bike rental spots? And electric skateboards?
Look, the problem is where the glaciers melt. When it melts on the opposite side, the land rise is too far, but the water level where you are goes up. Hence, for Australia and NZ it's more critical if the ice shelf melts on the OTHER side of Antarctica, and for NYC and the NE US and E Canada it's more important if the NE glacial shelfs melt in Greenland than if they melt on the SW edge of Greenland.
Look, just quadruple your investments you waste on fossil fuel tax subsidies and tax exemptions and exclusions and spend that on renewable energy like solar and wind. Otherwise, you're toast. Soggy toast.
We'll be fine here in the Pacific NW, by the way. Most of the impacts don't happen here until the latter half of this century.
Look, we've been using your secure cloud services to get intel on US "secure" communications for years, now you want to encourage it even more?
Oh, and lock down those cloud backups, they let us triangulate your physical access points. It's like 360 degree 24/7/365 at Mar-a-Lago with only a 0.5 second delay.
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They film Westworld there.
It's actually the way I get to Santa Barbara, normally. I-5 is too slow and 101 is just boring scenic coastline.
Um, you already pay carbon tax.
Every time you buy a good or service from China, Japan, Australia, Canada, the EU, or from some US states (the ones that actually are 60 percent of the US economy), you're paying a carbon tax.
If you don't have a local carbon tax, they get to keep the money in the other country and spend it there. If you had a carbon tax, it would be spent in your local economy.
Thanks for helping everyone else out by not having a local carbon tax!
They'll all be under 3-20 feet of water by then.
Pets. Hey, dog or coyote, cat or cougar, they're all meat for Soylent Red, right?
Think about that.
Does nobody else ever write Dystopian SF?
>Apple Pay
Oh, I remember that. That was that thing for idiots who were convinced it was easier to carry around a 6 ounce, $1000 phone than a free 10 gram debit card because "tapping" was somehow infinitely less physically exhausting than "swiping".
So how's that working out for them?
Not sure, but they bundled it into the latest iOS 11.2 iPhone update.
Think about it.
They got your credit/debit cards.
Yup.
No, dude, we're getting both hockey (NHL) and basketball (NBA) teams this year, don't you read the dead tree paper? Seriously, at Key Arena.
Bum fights are in Kent, not Seattle.
If I could only get CBC over the air on my HDTV antenna, which receives higher quality signals (1080p) than my cable provider (1080i), I would cancel my cable entirely.
98 percent of the channels could disappear, because it turns out most of the ones I want are already over the air.
Seriously, NFL games are so slow it's like watching icons dry in the microwave.
It's not that, it's just that the comments were faked to the FCC by anti-NetNeutraility bots, and they're concerned that America is waking up to their criminal activities in hacking the "vote".
After the bubble pops.
They always do.
Have fun with your South Sea shares, comrades.
It's really a shame, because Canada is going full Net Neutrality and actually listening to what consumers want, and not the corporate greedheads.
(caveat: I indirectly own shares in many telecom firms, and have worked for them in the past)
Maybe they might notice the secure web is:
a. not secure
b. leaks like a sieve
c. feeds Russian intel
But not the name you're seeing here.
And the comments are so botty.
Who said they were Chinese?
Look, most wind and solar are built in the US. I think you incorrectly believe that all wind turbines and solar panels are built in China. A lot of the patents and the facilities for making them are here. In various states, but especially in the county where Microsoft has their HQ.
Look, this whole place is just filled with construction cranes, although Dubai has us beat on that score.
But are these passivhaus green buildings? Do they have solar roofs (yes, I know, you incorrectly think Seattle and Redmond are bad places for solar, but we get 80 to 100 percent solar output all year round, even when it's cloudy as the dickens and mist rains are falling)? Will they have lofted wind turbines like you see in Big Hero 6? On the Eastside, they aren't as green as Seattle City Light is, so that's a major concern.
Also, how many bike rental spots? And electric skateboards?
This is exactly what Slashdot was created for.
But you must be one of those new people
Look, the problem is where the glaciers melt. When it melts on the opposite side, the land rise is too far, but the water level where you are goes up. Hence, for Australia and NZ it's more critical if the ice shelf melts on the OTHER side of Antarctica, and for NYC and the NE US and E Canada it's more important if the NE glacial shelfs melt in Greenland than if they melt on the SW edge of Greenland.
Look, just quadruple your investments you waste on fossil fuel tax subsidies and tax exemptions and exclusions and spend that on renewable energy like solar and wind. Otherwise, you're toast. Soggy toast.
We'll be fine here in the Pacific NW, by the way. Most of the impacts don't happen here until the latter half of this century.
About time.
We have privacy and more GDP than the Red Commie GOP Beltway does.
FCC can go to Hades.
That will teach them.
NOT.
You want change?
Jail the Uber execs.
Sufficient for acquisition lock. They don't tend to move around that much, so you can predict.
Look, we've been using your secure cloud services to get intel on US "secure" communications for years, now you want to encourage it even more?
Oh, and lock down those cloud backups, they let us triangulate your physical access points. It's like 360 degree 24/7/365 at Mar-a-Lago with only a 0.5 second delay.
Not that hard, actually.
Just impacts their excessive profit, that's all.