cats are strict carnivore. They can't skip meat . . .
On the other hand, dogs don't really need to eat only meat. Judging by the dogs I've known, they would be perfectly content just eating cat shit. And cat shit is better nutrition for dogs than some of the dog foods you can buy at the store. (Just don't let the dogs eat any clumping clay type cat litter)
How'd that "if we abandon this useful technology we will make the world safer" plan work out?
It worked pretty well for the last 50 years. Wasn't really until the downfall of the USSR that proliferation of nuclear weapons to rogue states and non-state actors became relatively likely.
Areas of the US with a lot of nuclear have historically also had the lowest rates.
Not in my experience. Illinois has had some of the largest percent of electrical power as nuclear, but has had above average rates, for residential customers like me, at least. state-by-state rates state-by-state fuel types
You're assuming that you can keep doing that for a long time. Chances are, if you job hop that much, you will eventually find yourself in a losing position and end up unemployed long enough to lose most of that extra pay.
For me an employee who averages around 2.5 years per company is no risk at all.
Maybe for someone only 5 years out of school. But for someone with 15 or 20 years of experience, you better think long and hard about why they switched jobs so often before hiring them.
One thing that I've noticed about a lot of people who've been at companies for a long time (7+ years) is that they've been a little too heavily indoctrinated into the company's traditional ways of thinking.
I've essentially had 3 jobs in 37 years, and I've never been indoctrinated into the company's way of doing things, except perhaps in the first couple of years at the beginning of my first job, when that short experience was all I knew about the job. It would be a pretty small person to be unable to think for themselves about the work just because they've been with the same company for the last 7 years.
For me, when I see people that jump jobs every 18-24 months, I see people I don't want to waste my energy on
Exactly. We recently hired a guy that had several jobs in on his resume that lasted less than three years each, in spite of the office manager recommending to the boss to hire someone else, instead. We let him go after about 6 months. He was neither competent for the job we hired him for, nor was he interested in trying to become competent. If he had shown a willingness to learn or even just a capacity to care about what he did on the job, we would have kept him, as we need someone in the role he was hired for.
Actually I'm working on a couple of projects where they're replacing scanning machines with the latest & greatest (in the back-of-the-house baggage handling for checked luggage). They're actually installing fewer machines than the number they're replacing. The new machines have a much greater throughput, and, as an added bonus, have a higher false positive rate.
Obama did not foster identity politics and class hatred. The current set of "Republicans" did, and they doubled down on it when a black man got elected president.
I'm not a fan of coal. I would like to see it gone for power generation and steel production. But for now we cannot make steel at an economical price without it. No steel. No cities. No train. No lots of things.
No coal, No steel, No problem: Just use carbon nano-tubes and graphite!
The "to promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers" standard was a Reagan-era watering down of anti-trust enforcement. Before that, it was sufficient to show that you were hurting competition in order to get some anti-trust action going. Since Bush 2, it seems very difficult for any company to run afoul of anti-trust regulators, no matter what they do or who they merge with to do it.
Wealth creation is not a zero sum game. Wealth is nothing more than the accumulation of the results of labor. Labor is the action of creating value. Since labor creates, wealth is constantly increasing.
But entropy says wealth is constantly decreasing. (e.g. consumables, like food) So a good amount of wealth-creating labor is required just to stay even.
Hell, Obama did a form of it by oversimplifying. "If you like your plan you can keep it" was true, but only if you add, ", if your plan meets the new minimums."
Actually, my plan didn't meet all the new minimums, but the company I work for kept it, as it was grandfathered in. Problem was, almost no health care providers wanted to accept it anymore.
That's a strawman argument. He never said anything about communism, he never said any capitalism was bad. He said "pure capitalism is ruthless & egoistic." [emphasis added] His point is that laws are needed to restrain the rich and powerful.
Maybe Australia could legislate that pi = 3.0 exactly . . .
That's bonkers. Everyone knows that pi is exactly 22/7. Otherwise how would a cylinder 7 inches in diameter and 6 inches tall define exactly one gallon?
So we're using "briefly occupying the same room as someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who...who knows someone in the Russian government" as the legal definition of "adhering to the enemy" or "collusion" or whatever else?
No. But if you believe that's all that happened, perhaps you'd be interested in buying this bridge I have.
The European victors carved up its territory into colonies along the modern borders we see today, with little to no regard for the cultural, religious, and socio-political boundaries of the indigenous people.
It's more likely that they paid high regard to the indigenous cultural, religious, and socio-political boundaries, and purposefully broke them up, to make it easier to control the populations of their colonies.
Based on my Illinois bill compared to your link, the listed USA average 10.41 cents per kWh (which you rounded down to 10) does not appear to cover some taxes, meter fees, and other costs, some of which are not charged based on kWh. looking at one of my bills, those costs averaged out to almost 4 cents / kWh in a typical, non-air conditioning month.
So last March I paid 9.57 cents/kWh for electricity supply and delivery combined (yes, they're separate charges ever since "deregulation") but 13.4 cents/kWh including all costs, while your chart says Illinois has an average cost of 9.4 cents / kWh.
Still looks a little cheaper than Norway, though.
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On the other hand, dogs don't really need to eat only meat. Judging by the dogs I've known, they would be perfectly content just eating cat shit. And cat shit is better nutrition for dogs than some of the dog foods you can buy at the store. (Just don't let the dogs eat any clumping clay type cat litter)
TIFFs are still out there all over the place, especially for scans and including within .pdfs.
And if it weren't for the US government subsidized liability limits for nuclear, nuclear would die on its' own.
It worked pretty well for the last 50 years. Wasn't really until the downfall of the USSR that proliferation of nuclear weapons to rogue states and non-state actors became relatively likely.
Not in my experience. Illinois has had some of the largest percent of electrical power as nuclear, but has had above average rates, for residential customers like me, at least.
state-by-state rates
state-by-state fuel types
You're assuming that you can keep doing that for a long time. Chances are, if you job hop that much, you will eventually find yourself in a losing position and end up unemployed long enough to lose most of that extra pay.
Maybe for someone only 5 years out of school. But for someone with 15 or 20 years of experience, you better think long and hard about why they switched jobs so often before hiring them.
I've essentially had 3 jobs in 37 years, and I've never been indoctrinated into the company's way of doing things, except perhaps in the first couple of years at the beginning of my first job, when that short experience was all I knew about the job. It would be a pretty small person to be unable to think for themselves about the work just because they've been with the same company for the last 7 years.
Exactly. We recently hired a guy that had several jobs in on his resume that lasted less than three years each, in spite of the office manager recommending to the boss to hire someone else, instead. We let him go after about 6 months. He was neither competent for the job we hired him for, nor was he interested in trying to become competent. If he had shown a willingness to learn or even just a capacity to care about what he did on the job, we would have kept him, as we need someone in the role he was hired for.
You don't have to work for someone else to be productive.
So the Julie/a should have told the county clerk that they were spelling her name wrong on her birth certificate when she was a day old or so?
Actually I'm working on a couple of projects where they're replacing scanning machines with the latest & greatest (in the back-of-the-house baggage handling for checked luggage). They're actually installing fewer machines than the number they're replacing. The new machines have a much greater throughput, and, as an added bonus, have a higher false positive rate.
Obama did not foster identity politics and class hatred. The current set of "Republicans" did, and they doubled down on it when a black man got elected president.
No coal, No steel, No problem: Just use carbon nano-tubes and graphite!
You weren't listening carefully. Coal did not come from dinosaurs, but from plants.
The "to promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers" standard was a Reagan-era watering down of anti-trust enforcement. Before that, it was sufficient to show that you were hurting competition in order to get some anti-trust action going. Since Bush 2, it seems very difficult for any company to run afoul of anti-trust regulators, no matter what they do or who they merge with to do it.
But entropy says wealth is constantly decreasing. (e.g. consumables, like food) So a good amount of wealth-creating labor is required just to stay even.
Actually, my plan didn't meet all the new minimums, but the company I work for kept it, as it was grandfathered in. Problem was, almost no health care providers wanted to accept it anymore.
That's a strawman argument. He never said anything about communism, he never said any capitalism was bad. He said " pure capitalism is ruthless & egoistic." [emphasis added] His point is that laws are needed to restrain the rich and powerful.
That's bonkers. Everyone knows that pi is exactly 22/7. Otherwise how would a cylinder 7 inches in diameter and 6 inches tall define exactly one gallon?
It has been admitted that the Magnitsky act was discussed at the meeting with Trump jr.
No. But if you believe that's all that happened, perhaps you'd be interested in buying this bridge I have.
Going from 20 MPG to 40 MPG is only a 50% improvement in fuel economy.
It's more likely that they paid high regard to the indigenous cultural, religious, and socio-political boundaries, and purposefully broke them up, to make it easier to control the populations of their colonies.
Based on my Illinois bill compared to your link, the listed USA average 10.41 cents per kWh (which you rounded down to 10) does not appear to cover some taxes, meter fees, and other costs, some of which are not charged based on kWh. looking at one of my bills, those costs averaged out to almost 4 cents / kWh in a typical, non-air conditioning month.
So last March I paid 9.57 cents/kWh for electricity supply and delivery combined (yes, they're separate charges ever since "deregulation") but 13.4 cents/kWh including all costs, while your chart says Illinois has an average cost of 9.4 cents / kWh.
Still looks a little cheaper than Norway, though.