Ok, so you're right. The word "union" doesn't mean the same thing as the word "communism" -- but it's a moot point. Because all the unions (there's really only 1) around here (USA) are communist. So even if the word "union" meant "potato salad", joining a union means supporting communism.
You can totally start an oil company. But you'll have to buy from Exxon, BP, Shell, or Texaco. They'll sell it to you at $70/barrel, though they only pay $25/barrel for what they don't own. Chavez will sell you a long term contract at $50/barrel. But unless OPEC mix is sweeter than Citgo crude, it's $55/barrel mark means that Chavez doesn't count on prices staying this high. Don't think OPEN is any cheaper than NYMEX. It'll cost you the difference to refine their tar. All the sweet stuff over there is locked up in big 4 contracts.
What do you have against Indians, Russians, and Chinese? Are you Racist? If they can produce the same level of skilled individuals and have a lower cost of living, then maybe their economic systems aren't so flawed.
But until they get the same degree of personal freedoms, lazzes faire markets, and environmental protection, their work will be inferior. The only risk we run is reducing our blessings to a lower level than theirs, at which point, refugees from America will probably crowd their shores for opportunity and drive down their wages.
Or optimistically, their quality of life will come up and the value of the resulting higher standard of living will raise their relative cost of living as well. Or else they'll all move here.
Keynes was only right on one point. In the long run, we're all dead.
Construction jobs aren't unionized. There are a few big companies that were forced by the government (read: union employees) to pay a percentage of their workers salary to the union, but most construction workers are either independent and/or illegal aliens and/or temps working for a nonunionized payroll company, very similar to tech "consulting" companies.
This is pretty much the only problem with our government. The lazy communists have completely taken over the bureaucracy, and our tax dollars support their government employee unions which is the number one source of crooked lobby and campaign money.
Maybe people would take your comments more seriously if you changed your name. Or maybe they would laugh if you didn't sound so sincere. Or they would laugh at you if you sounded just a little bit more sincere.
Dude, Caldera bough SUSE. Caldera was a spinoff of Novell. By the dotcom craze, "The SCO Group" was already dead, and after Novell recovered from Netware 5's failure, and rebounded from Active Directory's success, they made another investment or two.
If it weren't for Caldera, the only people using Linux would be Toy Story fans and slackware/gentoo "watch the compiler scrool" geeks. The Caldera installer (and RPM) is what made Linux mainstream.
The electicity generation plant may be much more efficient, but the transportation lines are way way way more inefficient. The net loss of power over long distance lines is a big problem.
Nothing is ever safe in the hands of corporations! I couldn't agree more. The only thing worse than putting it in the hands of corporations is putting it in the hands of the government. And maybe individuals.
It's electrolysis that is 70% efficient. Electrical generation is only about 30% efficient.
Net efficiency -- 25%. And then you've got an 80% electical to mechanical ration. Grand total, ideally around 20% efficiency -- no better than gas.
http://www.cmt.anl.gov/science-technology/lowtempt hermochemical.shtml
No kidding? I remember seeing an episode of the Jetsons 30-40 years ago and everyone had flying cars. Sometimes manufacturing reality doesn't live up to engineering dreams.
Texas is pretty big. If you're in Galveston, you might want to go 30 miles for hurricane evacuation (to get to Houston). Everywhere else, it's a smaller percentage of the neary thousand mile width of the state.
There you get to the point. It's okay to think about building a few hundred fancy batteries, but you just can't get the materials (or disposal facitilies) for the billions of batteries needed if everyone switches over from comparatively "clean" internal combustion engines.
I'll pay 6.2% of my income to my parents so they won't starve. And it will be a lot more than the 2% they'd get of my dad's income (which was less than mine, due to inflation, all other things being equal) he'd get back for every year he lives past 65. And I'll keep the other 6.2% of my income for my retirement so I won't be a burden to my kids.
He didn't say you were a psychology ninja; you're more like a psychobabbly powderpuff. He was merely illustrating the paranoia of people like you who seem to believe that giving old people who can't survive on Social Security payments some money in exchange for social interaction with the customers is proof of a conspiracy of near-superhuman abilities by an organization that is just trying to sell cheap Chinese products at a lower price and in smaller towns than their French nomanclatured marksmanship fetishist counterpart.
Who's theory was it that the chemical weapons were destroyed? Not Saddam Hussein's. He insisted that he did not have to destroy his weapons. He maintained a strictly legalistic sovereignty argument, despite the conditions of the Gulf War ceasfile.
1) The term is "significant" not "vast" stockpiles
2) A "significant" amount of sarin gas is measured in ounces. Significant amounts of mustard gas can be manufactured in days.
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dude, you're white.
I choose opportunity over communism.
And in return, they've chosen to give you neither.
I hope we can all see the difference between these two statements. I got dizzy trying to explain the disconnect in reasoning.
Ok, so you're right. The word "union" doesn't mean the same thing as the word "communism" -- but it's a moot point. Because all the unions (there's really only 1) around here (USA) are communist. So even if the word "union" meant "potato salad", joining a union means supporting communism.
You can totally start an oil company. But you'll have to buy from Exxon, BP, Shell, or Texaco. They'll sell it to you at $70/barrel, though they only pay $25/barrel for what they don't own. Chavez will sell you a long term contract at $50/barrel. But unless OPEC mix is sweeter than Citgo crude, it's $55/barrel mark means that Chavez doesn't count on prices staying this high. Don't think OPEN is any cheaper than NYMEX. It'll cost you the difference to refine their tar. All the sweet stuff over there is locked up in big 4 contracts.
What do you have against Indians, Russians, and Chinese? Are you Racist?
If they can produce the same level of skilled individuals and have a lower cost of living, then maybe their economic systems aren't so flawed.
But until they get the same degree of personal freedoms, lazzes faire markets, and environmental protection, their work will be inferior. The only risk we run is reducing our blessings to a lower level than theirs, at which point, refugees from America will probably crowd their shores for opportunity and drive down their wages.
Or optimistically, their quality of life will come up and the value of the resulting higher standard of living will raise their relative cost of living as well. Or else they'll all move here.
Keynes was only right on one point. In the long run, we're all dead.
Construction jobs aren't unionized. There are a few big companies that were forced by the government (read: union employees) to pay a percentage of their workers salary to the union, but most construction workers are either independent and/or illegal aliens and/or temps working for a nonunionized payroll company, very similar to tech "consulting" companies.
So you're saying attack India and force the people there to give up their jobs to Americans?
I guess you chose #1.
This is pretty much the only problem with our government. The lazy communists have completely taken over the bureaucracy, and our tax dollars support their government employee unions which is the number one source of crooked lobby and campaign money.
Maybe people would take your comments more seriously if you changed your name. Or maybe they would laugh if you didn't sound so sincere. Or they would laugh at you if you sounded just a little bit more sincere.
Go burn a tire in Paris.
Any decent tech guy in India is getting at least $6/hour.
Dude, Caldera bough SUSE. Caldera was a spinoff of Novell. By the dotcom craze, "The SCO Group" was already dead, and after Novell recovered from Netware 5's failure, and rebounded from Active Directory's success, they made another investment or two. If it weren't for Caldera, the only people using Linux would be Toy Story fans and slackware/gentoo "watch the compiler scrool" geeks. The Caldera installer (and RPM) is what made Linux mainstream.
If a web browser, a graphics library, and some printer drivers make an OS, why not a compiler, c libraries and some shell scripts?
Unless, of course, those things are really supplementary to an OS, which is best described as a kernel and associated core hardware drivers.
The electicity generation plant may be much more efficient, but the transportation lines are way way way more inefficient. The net loss of power over long distance lines is a big problem.
Nothing is ever safe in the hands of corporations! I couldn't agree more. The only thing worse than putting it in the hands of corporations is putting it in the hands of the government. And maybe individuals.
It's electrolysis that is 70% efficient. Electrical generation is only about 30% efficient. Net efficiency -- 25%. And then you've got an 80% electical to mechanical ration. Grand total, ideally around 20% efficiency -- no better than gas. http://www.cmt.anl.gov/science-technology/lowtempt hermochemical.shtml
No kidding? I remember seeing an episode of the Jetsons 30-40 years ago and everyone had flying cars. Sometimes manufacturing reality doesn't live up to engineering dreams.
Texas is pretty big. If you're in Galveston, you might want to go 30 miles for hurricane evacuation (to get to Houston). Everywhere else, it's a smaller percentage of the neary thousand mile width of the state.
There were 10 Priuses sold in Toronto and 10 more people want one.
There you get to the point. It's okay to think about building a few hundred fancy batteries, but you just can't get the materials (or disposal facitilies) for the billions of batteries needed if everyone switches over from comparatively "clean" internal combustion engines.
I'll pay 6.2% of my income to my parents so they won't starve. And it will be a lot more than the 2% they'd get of my dad's income (which was less than mine, due to inflation, all other things being equal) he'd get back for every year he lives past 65. And I'll keep the other 6.2% of my income for my retirement so I won't be a burden to my kids.
He didn't say you were a psychology ninja; you're more like a psychobabbly powderpuff. He was merely illustrating the paranoia of people like you who seem to believe that giving old people who can't survive on Social Security payments some money in exchange for social interaction with the customers is proof of a conspiracy of near-superhuman abilities by an organization that is just trying to sell cheap Chinese products at a lower price and in smaller towns than their French nomanclatured marksmanship fetishist counterpart.
Who's theory was it that the chemical weapons were destroyed? Not Saddam Hussein's. He insisted that he did not have to destroy his weapons. He maintained a strictly legalistic sovereignty argument, despite the conditions of the Gulf War ceasfile.
1) The term is "significant" not "vast" stockpiles 2) A "significant" amount of sarin gas is measured in ounces. Significant amounts of mustard gas can be manufactured in days.