Makes complete sense if you drop the H off of KwH, as coal has a capital cost around 1-2 dollars/Kw of generating capacity with solar quickly catching up to that.
The price of natural gas is extremely low currently ($4-5/per million BTU) due to the economic recession. If the economy were to pick back up, the price would rise quickly, thereby cancelling out a great deal of the economic benefit:
Who would have ever thought copyright would be extended from 14 (original) + 14 (renewal) years to Life + 70 years? But here we our. Never think it can't happen.
Or, even better, have the Gov dept. procard (Government version of an expense account/credit card) Amazon EC2 and S3. Total cost? No more than a couple hundred dollars a month.
I don't blame them. If I wanted to send something USPS, I'd pay USPS rates and send it through them, not let UPS pick it up and drop it off at a local USPS sorting facility and make a fat margin by not handling final delivery.
I understand that. I'm saying they want to push the USPS to continue to deliver (unlike Netflix) because Amazon's costs are higher to deliver via UPS/Fedex vs USPS. USPS Saturday delivery costs are lower than UPS/Fedex because it's subsidized by all the other mail (which is slowly drying up). Amazon should be figuring out how to live without USPS providing Saturday delivery (use other carriers and try to obtain discounts; use incentives so people by earlier in the week and won't use Saturday delivery), not lobbying for them to continue an unprofitable practice.
I think my post is quite accurate thanks. As a business owner, I'm not going to provide service to a certain geographic region if it's not profitable. I believe it to be fact that other for-profit entities feel the same way (I don't include non-profits whose sole goal is to provide service to under-served areas). I'm sure you're aware of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which grew out of the need to provide electricity service to a majority of Tennessee residents due to the unprofitability of doing so.
If the USPS can't provide service to both urban and rural areas while staying in the black, how do you expect private business to do the same thing (if mandated) while maintaining the same level of service? I'm sure there is cruft to cut in the USPS, but not enough to justify a health profit margin for a for-profit org.
Holy shit, did you even think when you typed your post?
Screw rural residents:
Why should people living in the backwoods of Kentucky be entitled to force me to pay for their mail service? It's their choice to live there. If they really wanted better or less expensive service they should move to a city.
OMGS! EVERYONE EQUAL!
Government should benefit everyone equally, not one class of people over another.
Also, show me one farm of sufficient size to efficiently produce food for a substantial number of people. Fuck cities. They'd die overnight if food wasn't shipped into them like it's going out of style.
You do know the USPS is given a monopoly on first class mail deliver to ensure rural service is as good as urban service, correct? Otherwise, you'd end up with what we have for broadband: Some options in urban/suburban areas, no options in rural areas due to the unprovability of servicing said areas.
But Amazon wants the USPS to continue Saturday delivery, even though the USPS is bleeding red ink. If Amazon feels the service is worthwhile, they can pay for Saturday delivery. No point in making everyone who pays for postage subsidize their need.
Amazon is free to send their products through UPS and Fedex (which do deliver on Saturday's if you pay for it). Why should the USPS continue Saturday delivery so Amazon can send media products (books, DVDs, CDs) at a deep discount to other carriers?
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SHHHHHHH! You're not supposed to tell them yet!
Well, I did read my "7 day MBA" book in a weekend ;)
Cost of lost business to Verizon due to bad publicity > Profit to be made from ETF
Makes complete sense if you drop the H off of KwH, as coal has a capital cost around 1-2 dollars/Kw of generating capacity with solar quickly catching up to that.
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/energy-prices/
He's talking capital costs, not ongoing use costs.
http://www.google.com/search?q=usps+tax+dollars
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/postalfacts.htm
Who would have ever thought copyright would be extended from 14 (original) + 14 (renewal) years to Life + 70 years? But here we our. Never think it can't happen.
Remeber kids, support those who believe in the same ideals you do.
Not a bad idea, but I'm gonna send a check to the EFF just to be sure.
Or, even better, have the Gov dept. procard (Government version of an expense account/credit card) Amazon EC2 and S3. Total cost? No more than a couple hundred dollars a month.
Different environments have different requirements. Why can't you have both a laptop and a map in the field?
As long as that computer still is working though, you have a much better chance of not being subjected to friendly fire. Paper map? not so much
Glad to hear the DOD is just as bad as the DOE. On the other hand, OMG so much waste =(
Parts, but 4chan keeps bogging me down.
I don't blame them. If I wanted to send something USPS, I'd pay USPS rates and send it through them, not let UPS pick it up and drop it off at a local USPS sorting facility and make a fat margin by not handling final delivery.
I understand that. I'm saying they want to push the USPS to continue to deliver (unlike Netflix) because Amazon's costs are higher to deliver via UPS/Fedex vs USPS. USPS Saturday delivery costs are lower than UPS/Fedex because it's subsidized by all the other mail (which is slowly drying up). Amazon should be figuring out how to live without USPS providing Saturday delivery (use other carriers and try to obtain discounts; use incentives so people by earlier in the week and won't use Saturday delivery), not lobbying for them to continue an unprofitable practice.
If the USPS can't provide service to both urban and rural areas while staying in the black, how do you expect private business to do the same thing (if mandated) while maintaining the same level of service? I'm sure there is cruft to cut in the USPS, but not enough to justify a health profit margin for a for-profit org.
Screw rural residents:
Why should people living in the backwoods of Kentucky be entitled to force me to pay for their mail service? It's their choice to live there. If they really wanted better or less expensive service they should move to a city.
OMGS! EVERYONE EQUAL!
Government should benefit everyone equally, not one class of people over another.
Also, show me one farm of sufficient size to efficiently produce food for a substantial number of people. Fuck cities. They'd die overnight if food wasn't shipped into them like it's going out of style.
You do know the USPS is given a monopoly on first class mail deliver to ensure rural service is as good as urban service, correct? Otherwise, you'd end up with what we have for broadband: Some options in urban/suburban areas, no options in rural areas due to the unprovability of servicing said areas.
Meh. My DVD queue has 19 movies in it. My streaming queue? 186.
But Amazon wants the USPS to continue Saturday delivery, even though the USPS is bleeding red ink. If Amazon feels the service is worthwhile, they can pay for Saturday delivery. No point in making everyone who pays for postage subsidize their need.
Amazon is free to send their products through UPS and Fedex (which do deliver on Saturday's if you pay for it). Why should the USPS continue Saturday delivery so Amazon can send media products (books, DVDs, CDs) at a deep discount to other carriers?
http://www.mda.mil/news/10news0002.html
Airborne Laser Test Bed Successful in Lethal Intercept Experiment
Coincidently, history is always written by the winner of said conflict. So I'd say it's worked out pretty well for us.