A building site manager I spoke to a while ago told me that they planned for having 70% of the day's work done before lunch, as productivity plummeted as people got more tired - so according to him people were twice as efficient in the first 3-4 hours as in the next 3-4 hours. In such a context a longer workday would make absolutely no sense - productivity would be minimal.
In Denmark we have five weeks of holidays each year, and as the law is made, you don't have a right to five weeks, it is your duty to have five weeks of holidays. This means you cannot trade your holidays in for other benefits - you have to go one holiday.
For some reason nobody complains about this egregious limitation of our freedoms:-)
The US economy is using oil in a very wasteful manner. The quantity of oil used to produce one dollar of GNP is way higher in the US than in many other industrialised nations, like Japan and in Western Europe. Some societies actually manage to have economic growth without using more energy, so production and energy consumption are not inextricably tied together.
The street price of gasoline in the US is less than 50% of the price in most of Europe. As long as gas and oil is priced so ridiculously low in the US, there is no incentive to be efficient and the level of consumption will remain high, and hence the US dependency on foreigh oil will remain, and the US will continue to be the most polluting nation in the world.
It is only a fraction of US oil consumption that comes from the Gulf region. If the US used oil as efficiently as in Europe and Japan, that dependency could easily be removed. In comparison, some European nations are actually oil exporters, even though their oil resources aren't really that immense. Quite are few are self-sufficient with regards to oil.
Europe and Japan actually learned something from the energy crisis in 1973. Maybe it is time for the US to follow suit.
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And we're only told now!
"Guy's and idiot and should be forcibly ejected from the country."
And who's saying we want your idiots? They probably don't speak English either.
A building site manager I spoke to a while ago told me that they planned for having 70% of the day's work done before lunch, as productivity plummeted as people got more tired - so according to him people were twice as efficient in the first 3-4 hours as in the next 3-4 hours. In such a context a longer workday would make absolutely no sense - productivity would be minimal.
In Denmark we have five weeks of holidays each year, and as the law is made, you don't have a right to five weeks, it is your duty to have five weeks of holidays. This means you cannot trade your holidays in for other benefits - you have to go one holiday.
For some reason nobody complains about this egregious limitation of our freedoms :-)
after all, she's almost definitely a terrorist..
You people sure know how to make a man feel like a loser :-(
Europe had something called the Enlightenment in the late 18th century, but it seems somehow North America missed that party.
Four digits! So what? Who cares? :-)
l'm writing this on my Nokia 770.
Its a great toy but it is definitely useful to have mail and web within reach anywhere you have GSM coverage.
The only downside is that its a bit low on memory. lt would have been better with 128Mb.
lt would also be nice with support for NFS or Samba.
I think 5-digit uids are way cool.
Exactly, you lose shit, the europeans lose art :-)
Bryggenet offers cable tv, internet and telephony very cheap in a part of Copenhagen. Many such networks exist in Denmark.
I have a shared 88Mbit/s connection to my home office, for something like $25/month.
Everybody can add their own transistors.
Valrhona is probably the best you can find in chocolate.
I my family we give the kids an email address on the family domain the day they're born. We've been doing so for several years :-)
I must say, that there have only been two births in the period, but 100% of them got an email on the day of their birth.
The US economy is using oil in a very wasteful manner. The quantity of oil used to produce one dollar of GNP is way higher in the US than in many other industrialised nations, like Japan and in Western Europe. Some societies actually manage to have economic growth without using more energy, so production and energy consumption are not inextricably tied together.
The street price of gasoline in the US is less than 50% of the price in most of Europe. As long as gas and oil is priced so ridiculously low in the US, there is no incentive to be efficient and the level of consumption will remain high, and hence the US dependency on foreigh oil will remain, and the US will continue to be the most polluting nation in the world.
It is only a fraction of US oil consumption that comes from the Gulf region. If the US used oil as efficiently as in Europe and Japan, that dependency could easily be removed. In comparison, some European nations are actually oil exporters, even though their oil resources aren't really that immense. Quite are few are self-sufficient with regards to oil.
Europe and Japan actually learned something from the energy crisis in 1973. Maybe it is time for the US to follow suit.