However, with increased mileage and electric vehicles, there needs to be a higher licensing fee. You could do it based on mileage tho that's a little orwellian and creepy. You could also do it in a tire tax.
33% petroleum 12% hard coal 12% lignite 22% Natural gas, petroleum gas 08% nuclear Energy 02% Water and wind power 10% other renewables
-1% Foreign trade balance power 02% Other
Agree but not on the date. I'm thinking we have until around 2050.
Disease is possible but natural disease doesn't seem likely.
Designer disease seems fairly likely. Less expensive to make each year. At some point any crazy with a million bucks could probably make something slow to kill but fast to spread. Chance we'll get better at analyzing disease and be able to develop a cure faster.
Asteroids seem unlikely. But if a big one came, we wouldn't be able to do much.
War seems most likely, it would really mess up JIT all over the world. Plus if they attack each other's infrastructures, you could have billions starve fairly quickly. Could be over water.
This get more complex and more fragile the more people we have and now the peak is 11 billion instead of 9 billion. And I"m not sure I really believe that peak.
"Usually at night the air closer to the ground becomes colder when the sun goes down and the earth cools.
But on huge wind farms the motion of the turbines mixes the air higher in the atmosphere that is warmer, pushing up the overall temperature.
Satellite data over a large area in Texas, that is now covered by four of the world's largest wind farms, found that over a decade the local temperature went up by almost 1C as more turbines are built.
This could have long term effects on wildlife living in the immediate areas of larger wind farms. "
Look- wind was supposed to be "free" power as well and there is already talk of it altering weather patterns and regional wind patterns. Which makes sense when you are extracting energy from the wind.
Other power plants (like the ones you mention) that use water for cooling are already experiencing difficulties because the water is warmer than was projected or lower than projected or the local wildlife is blooming and clogging the plant's water intake.
Some only have the basic cable that comes free with internet. Lots don't even have that. As basic speeds are getting so fast, I'm wondering if I really need 900K/second. I think I could downgrade a couple notches are even go with the local club internet which is $45 a month.
WARN protects workers, their families, and communities by requiring employers to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of plant closings and mass layoffs. Advance notice gives workers and their families some transition time to adjust to the prospective loss of employment, to seek and obtain other jobs and, if necessary, to enter skill training or retraining that will allow these workers to compete successfully in the job market. WARN also provides for notice to state dislocated worker units so that they can promptly offer dislocated worker assistance.
A covered plant closing occurs when a facility or operating unit is shut down for more than six months, or when 50 or more employees lose their jobs during any 30â'day period at a single site of employment. A covered mass layoff occurs when 50 to 499 employees are affected during any 30-day period at a single employment site (or for certain multiple related layoffs, during a 90-day period), if these employees represent at least 33 percent of the employerâ(TM)s workforce where the layoff will occur, and the layoff results in an employment loss for more than six months. If the layoff affects 500 or more workers, the 33 percent rule does not apply.
WARN does not apply to closure of temporary facilities, or the completion of an activity when the workers were hired only for the duration of that activity. WARN also provides for less than 60 days notice when the layoffs resulted from closure of a faltering company, unforeseeable business circumstances, or natural disaster.
The rules change so quickly these days, sometimes it is nice to touch base and see what they are on a given day.
Two weeks notice is not treated the same way it was 30 years ago. Then, in most jobs it was pretty sacrosanct. It seemed to me that after 2000, companies were much more likely to let people go immediately without pay. I think it may be partially due to insurance liability if you are in any kind of sensative job.
It's interesting because for anything chronic, you can usually get the treatment for about the same as your deductible. Similarly for procedures in the $1000 to $3000 range. Essentially the insured cost and the uninsured cost is the same.
The tricky bit is when you have cancer or a heart attack. These max out at about $10,000 with insurance and go to $40,000 to $100,000 without insurance.
If a large company is going to have a layoff they legally must give notice.
OTH, a friend of mine gave notice trying to be nice because she felt loyal to the company and was immediately fired.
Personally, I think if you give notice and they do not give you two weeks pay, then you should be able to be legally counted as fired. They can't both say you quit and ignore your two week period.
Nope, that wasn't his argument. It was a fact that he had been unable to find a job and was nearly 60. But he was upset that they would extend unemployment from 52 weeks to 99 because it was socialism. Even tho he'd been unable to find work in close to a year and his benefits would be running out soon.
This was in 2009- it was very challenging to sell a house at that time and unemployment was very high (that's why unemployment was being extended to 99 weeks if you recall).
It sounds like you are not old yet-- age discrimination has been pretty rampant since 2007. That's when the SC gutted age discrimination protection.
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I make my coffee and do not keep it heated.
What I don't drink, I put into a Zynga bottle.
Then I have reheated coffee over the next several days. I tried it after seeing refrigerated coffees in the store.
Probably works better because I use cream and one packet of sweetener in my coffee.
Fresh-- I like the old denny's coffee the best.
Tax on oil should be a percentage (say 10%).
However, with increased mileage and electric vehicles, there needs to be a higher licensing fee. You could do it based on mileage tho that's a little orwellian and creepy.
You could also do it in a tire tax.
The subsidy value is low. You are ignoring the military costs to secure the oil and it's transport. That all comes for "free" out of tax dollars.
The U.S. dropped a little under 3 trillion on the middle east wars (and they were clearly about oil since similar atrocities were ignored elsewhere).
Not a rocket, but maybe a rail gun.
Rockets run $10,000 per pound-- with a goal of hundreds of dollars per pound by 2025.
33% petroleum
12% hard coal
12% lignite
22% Natural gas, petroleum gas
08% nuclear Energy
02% Water and wind power
10% other renewables
-1% Foreign trade balance power
02% Other
For their protection and ours.
Police more than firemen obviously.
Weed with nutritional benefits.
That would be a twofer twofer.
Where did you find the 1985 numbers? I looked for about 10 minutes and said, "today my jurisdiction ends here."
Oh yea... and I guess if it does get that high, we might be looking at Universe 33.
Agree but not on the date. I'm thinking we have until around 2050.
Disease is possible but natural disease doesn't seem likely.
Designer disease seems fairly likely. Less expensive to make each year. At some point any crazy with a million bucks could probably make something slow to kill but fast to spread. Chance we'll get better at analyzing disease and be able to develop a cure faster.
Asteroids seem unlikely. But if a big one came, we wouldn't be able to do much.
War seems most likely, it would really mess up JIT all over the world. Plus if they attack each other's infrastructures, you could have billions starve fairly quickly. Could be over water.
This get more complex and more fragile the more people we have and now the peak is 11 billion instead of 9 billion. And I"m not sure I really believe that peak.
1998 production: 52 987 000
2011 production: 59 870 838
And the curve looks fairly flat.
Probably cars lasting/being kept longer is part of the flatness of the curve.
Was hoping to see 1990 since that's 25 years back.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9234715/Wind-farms-can-cause-climate-change-finds-new-study.html
"Usually at night the air closer to the ground becomes colder when the sun goes down and the earth cools.
But on huge wind farms the motion of the turbines mixes the air higher in the atmosphere that is warmer, pushing up the overall temperature.
Satellite data over a large area in Texas, that is now covered by four of the world's largest wind farms, found that over a decade the local temperature went up by almost 1C as more turbines are built.
This could have long term effects on wildlife living in the immediate areas of larger wind farms. "
You were saying?
Look- wind was supposed to be "free" power as well and there is already talk of it altering weather patterns and regional wind patterns. Which makes sense when you are extracting energy from the wind.
Other power plants (like the ones you mention) that use water for cooling are already experiencing difficulties because the water is warmer than was projected or lower than projected or the local wildlife is blooming and clogging the plant's water intake.
Nothing is free.
Always look for the unintended consequences.
And you know, when there was only 1 automobile in california, there was no problem with air pollution.
And the whole plastic sea thing in the pacific didn't even really become noticeable until 20 years after we had plastic.
12kw today, 120kw a few years from now, 1200mw in 20 years...
This way we can pump heat directly into the deeper ocean and not have to wait for heat to slowly exchange from the surface!
I'm sure there won't be any bad side effects.
Only if you get paid for the notice period. If you don't get paid for the two weeks, you were fired.
That's what I meant. What the rules of society are these days. They change fast these days.
I sure hope there will be a labor shortage as I suspect in 2016 to 2020.
Uh... Texas.
Comcast charges $98 a month for XFinity internet service after all taxes and fees are applied.
With that, I get free basic cable (for a while it was $70 without cable and $60 with cable).
I'll give them a call tomorrow and see if I can get anything like your quote in my area.
Some only have the basic cable that comes free with internet.
Lots don't even have that.
As basic speeds are getting so fast, I'm wondering if I really need 900K/second.
I think I could downgrade a couple notches are even go with the local club internet which is $45 a month.
http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/layoffs.htm
Basic Provisions/Requirements
WARN protects workers, their families, and communities by requiring employers to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of plant closings and mass layoffs. Advance notice gives workers and their families some transition time to adjust to the prospective loss of employment, to seek and obtain other jobs and, if necessary, to enter skill training or retraining that will allow these workers to compete successfully in the job market. WARN also provides for notice to state dislocated worker units so that they can promptly offer dislocated worker assistance.
A covered plant closing occurs when a facility or operating unit is shut down for more than six months, or when 50 or more employees lose their jobs during any 30â'day period at a single site of employment. A covered mass layoff occurs when 50 to 499 employees are affected during any 30-day period at a single employment site (or for certain multiple related layoffs, during a 90-day period), if these employees represent at least 33 percent of the employerâ(TM)s workforce where the layoff will occur, and the layoff results in an employment loss for more than six months. If the layoff affects 500 or more workers, the 33 percent rule does not apply.
WARN does not apply to closure of temporary facilities, or the completion of an activity when the workers were hired only for the duration of that activity. WARN also provides for less than 60 days notice when the layoffs resulted from closure of a faltering company, unforeseeable business circumstances, or natural disaster.
The rules change so quickly these days, sometimes it is nice to touch base and see what they are on a given day.
Two weeks notice is not treated the same way it was 30 years ago. Then, in most jobs it was pretty sacrosanct. It seemed to me that after 2000, companies were much more likely to let people go immediately without pay. I think it may be partially due to insurance liability if you are in any kind of sensative job.
It's interesting because for anything chronic, you can usually get the treatment for about the same as your deductible. Similarly for procedures in the $1000 to $3000 range. Essentially the insured cost and the uninsured cost is the same.
The tricky bit is when you have cancer or a heart attack. These max out at about $10,000 with insurance and go to $40,000 to $100,000 without insurance.
Hey! No need to loose control!
If a large company is going to have a layoff they legally must give notice.
OTH, a friend of mine gave notice trying to be nice because she felt loyal to the company and was immediately fired.
Personally, I think if you give notice and they do not give you two weeks pay, then you should be able to be legally counted as fired. They can't both say you quit and ignore your two week period.
Nope, that wasn't his argument. It was a fact that he had been unable to find a job and was nearly 60. But he was upset that they would extend unemployment from 52 weeks to 99 because it was socialism. Even tho he'd been unable to find work in close to a year and his benefits would be running out soon.
This was in 2009- it was very challenging to sell a house at that time and unemployment was very high (that's why unemployment was being extended to 99 weeks if you recall).
It sounds like you are not old yet-- age discrimination has been pretty rampant since 2007. That's when the SC gutted age discrimination protection.