The investment, made with it without an expectation of reimbursement, was nonetheless an investment. I assume it was made with the expectation of a successful venture, jobs and tax revenue, and development of a domestic battery manufacturer.
the failure began the question of whether there was a reasonable chance of success.
I expect my government to have such an expectation, but the market is a harsh place, and companies do fail.
I'd like to say this is speculative investment, and I'd also rather my governmenet not use tax dollars to engage in such speculative investment at all.
But it is, in fact, crony capitalism, or worse, pure fraud.
Why shouldn't they indeed? But, what is a country?
If it is the leader, dictator, government, bureaucracy, then indeed they can and will set the rules, and they will need the valves on the intertubes available to them to control the flow of information - ideas, values, concepts, the like.
But if a country is to include the people, then perhaps the people will want to know things, things other than those approved of and delivered by their dictator, government, bureacracy.
The current Internet is already so ubiquitous that cutting off a country results in an immediate acknowlegement that the people of that country have been denied access to the most important and powerful forces we have - ideas, information, values, and the like. It seems, to me, that the ITU is being used by many countries' powers to regain control and be able to suppress the people even more efficiently. That alone is reason enough to oppose this, but the leaders of this movement are themselves potentially some of the least trustworthy and most likely to misuse these powers.
The US may not be blameless or without fault, but we should tell these other countries that if they find it necessary to exert this level of influence and control over the Internet, they should do so within their own borders, and leave us out of it please. Just have their ISPs rearchitect their systems, and give them the cutoff and isolate switch. No need to get us involved.
The second greatest attraction of freedom is its existence elsewhere.
Aren't tasty? what? Lobster is the ultimate white meat.
preparation? A live lobster and a pot of boiling water. This is not hard, people. If you can;t tell if your lobster is alive, it probably isn't, and never cook dead (or dying) lobster.
Quick primer. Boil until the shell is bright red, plunging the lobster in headfirst. It never realized it was dead.
Serve with baked potato, corn on the cob or greeen geans, plenty of melted butter available. Crack the claws off and open, pull out the meat, drop it in the butter. inCrack off the tail, tear off the tail fins and suck on them like candy:). take a cunck of claw meat and eat that, making room for the tail in the butter. If you're lazy, this is it. Otherwise, the knuckles above the claw have meat, each leg has a thread of meat, those tail fins usually do also. there is meat all through the body (carapace), and a little work nearly doubles your haul. Or give it to someone who knows how to get in there. Avoid the tomalley if you don't know what it is.
How to tell if yo got a Maine lobster? Measure the carapace, which had better measure between 3 1/2 and 5 inches from the end of the carapace to the edge of the eye socket. Cheating is very rare in Maine waters, lobstermen will send each other to jail over this... If it is shorter, good chance it came from Canada, or possibly Massachussetts. Those big spots the tail when raw/live? That is not a Maine lobster, probably a Longostino, which is not a lobster. Most are actually shrimp.
Yes, it is. my mom, when were were young, and on food stamps, used to buy lobster on sale - and people would stare. But a 1 1/4 lb lobster actually goes a long way, better than steak. You get enough to keep 2 pre-teen kids happy, pick the carcass for all the leftover meat and get a nice stew for another meal minimum. We were 5 kids, so 4 lobsters would feed us for 3 dinners, about $12-15 on sale. Not that we complained much...
Actually, most lobster is shipped packed with dry ice, watere is not necessary, and weight is not the issue. It;s nearly impossible to keep lobsters alive in shipping for more than 24 hours (read that as, 25+ hours), so they go by air if the truck can;t get there in time. And nothing quite matches the odor of dead lobster, even packed. Most airlines I know that take them do so with the caveat that if they are not picked up nearly immediately, they go in the trash.
I tolerate it from Google because they provide me a useful email service in exchange for access to my infor, and targeting ads that I overwhelmingly ignore (when I'm not gaming them for entertainment). My cable provider delivers to me a service I paid for already. If they which to further enhance their revenue stream by this or similar methods (beyond monitoring my set top already for channel changes and such), I may just clip the cable and move on.
And as others have mentioned, the real poroblem here is that the government, at all levels, will latch on to this data because, for lack of a better way to put it, they can. We will be fighting this for a long, long time.
Doesn't the SEC already have rules about communications? Maybe make some changes to those, such as requiring recordkeeping as a usual and customary process, and penalties when caught not keeping records. Even a single unlogged message could result in banishment, fines, or such.
If it's about specific crime, why are they asking for everything everywhere? Well, mostly because it is now possible. And that is a very very bad reason to permit such intrusion - just because they can.
Here in Arizona we have multiple taxes, at state, county, and municipal level.
But calling that a 'state' tax issue is misleading. It's the localities that really hose things up. And Phoenix goes one further, and taxes food at a different rate than merchandise. Yes, they tax food. And how they did it is even more disturbing than the fact that they do, but tha;'s the topic of several pages of posts, and not for this thread.
Since increasing spending without regard for the consequences isn't really a problem, right?
Let's not forget one thing - when our repesentatives are largely categorized in only two ways, that is 1) those who keep increasing spending by all means possible without regard for consequunces, and 2) those who keep decreasing revenue AND increasing spending by all means possible without regard for consequunces, then we have a problem. The problem is our representatives actions. The solution? Obvious.
And no, sadly, the solution is not Ron Paul. I say sadly because he, I believe, would actually do what he says he would do. It's what he wants to do that I have trouble with, not the man's integrity or his motives, so far as I can discern them. He just seems to want to use some terrible methods to rein in our government, but I'm also afraid thaere is no other practical solution.
A Chock Full O' Nuts can may be a better choice, and if there isn't one already available, well, then that geek cred is shot, as well as all the fantasies I have about living in the desolate flat nowhere. But such is the stuff of reality. Go buy them some coffee. Better cantenna.
Skating in the early 70s was a dreary exercise. I strapped a pack of NiCds onto an underdash cassette player tha happened to have a headphone jack, and presto, Skateman! yes, like wearing an iron on my belt.
Then I visited Manhattan for a training school and walked through J& R Music World. TPS-L2. Bliss.
In that scenerio, UPS/FedEx/DHL are the key components. Shipping product is much easier than ever, I can buy stuff from HK on eBay and get it in a week if they care to mail it out the same day. I no longer have to wait for my buddy to come back from Japan and his traditional trip to the Akihabara to see the latest gumstick sized IDE/SATA/Firewire/USB gizmo for USD22. I can probably browse their page and get it mailed. If they are with it, I can chat and avoid the Jinglish, mostly.
If Microsoft doesn't change anything important. Apple releases a 'new version' of iOS almost yearly, but what changes? Other than toys, we don not know.
Sure will keep the script kiddies busy validating their tools agains 'new versions'. Security through churn. Interesting concept.
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The investment, made with it without an expectation of reimbursement, was nonetheless an investment. I assume it was made with the expectation of a successful venture, jobs and tax revenue, and development of a domestic battery manufacturer.
the failure began the question of whether there was a reasonable chance of success.
I expect my government to have such an expectation, but the market is a harsh place, and companies do fail.
I would prefer we do it differently.
I'd like to say this is speculative investment, and I'd also rather my governmenet not use tax dollars to engage in such speculative investment at all.
But it is, in fact, crony capitalism, or worse, pure fraud.
No, wait, it's just fraud. We are being robbed.
Why shouldn't they indeed? But, what is a country?
If it is the leader, dictator, government, bureaucracy, then indeed they can and will set the rules, and they will need the valves on the intertubes available to them to control the flow of information - ideas, values, concepts, the like.
But if a country is to include the people, then perhaps the people will want to know things, things other than those approved of and delivered by their dictator, government, bureacracy.
The current Internet is already so ubiquitous that cutting off a country results in an immediate acknowlegement that the people of that country have been denied access to the most important and powerful forces we have - ideas, information, values, and the like. It seems, to me, that the ITU is being used by many countries' powers to regain control and be able to suppress the people even more efficiently. That alone is reason enough to oppose this, but the leaders of this movement are themselves potentially some of the least trustworthy and most likely to misuse these powers.
The US may not be blameless or without fault, but we should tell these other countries that if they find it necessary to exert this level of influence and control over the Internet, they should do so within their own borders, and leave us out of it please. Just have their ISPs rearchitect their systems, and give them the cutoff and isolate switch. No need to get us involved.
The second greatest attraction of freedom is its existence elsewhere.
TMO decided to stop subsidizing phones in 2013, making Value Plans the norm and letting us see the true cost.
In that scenario. This is easy.
Whoever first ate lobster.
Aren't tasty? what? Lobster is the ultimate white meat.
preparation? A live lobster and a pot of boiling water. This is not hard, people. If you can;t tell if your lobster is alive, it probably isn't, and never cook dead (or dying) lobster.
Quick primer. Boil until the shell is bright red, plunging the lobster in headfirst. It never realized it was dead.
Serve with baked potato, corn on the cob or greeen geans, plenty of melted butter available. Crack the claws off and open, pull out the meat, drop it in the butter. inCrack off the tail, tear off the tail fins and suck on them like candy :). take a cunck of claw meat and eat that, making room for the tail in the butter. If you're lazy, this is it. Otherwise, the knuckles above the claw have meat, each leg has a thread of meat, those tail fins usually do also. there is meat all through the body (carapace), and a little work nearly doubles your haul. Or give it to someone who knows how to get in there. Avoid the tomalley if you don't know what it is.
How to tell if yo got a Maine lobster? Measure the carapace, which had better measure between 3 1/2 and 5 inches from the end of the carapace to the edge of the eye socket. Cheating is very rare in Maine waters, lobstermen will send each other to jail over this... If it is shorter, good chance it came from Canada, or possibly Massachussetts. Those big spots the tail when raw/live? That is not a Maine lobster, probably a Longostino, which is not a lobster. Most are actually shrimp.
Sorry, I love lobster, and miss it so.
Salmon farming is playing helll with wild populations, but other than that it's very sustainable. Just ask the seals.
Yes, it is. my mom, when were were young, and on food stamps, used to buy lobster on sale - and people would stare. But a 1 1/4 lb lobster actually goes a long way, better than steak. You get enough to keep 2 pre-teen kids happy, pick the carcass for all the leftover meat and get a nice stew for another meal minimum. We were 5 kids, so 4 lobsters would feed us for 3 dinners, about $12-15 on sale. Not that we complained much...
Actually, most lobster is shipped packed with dry ice, watere is not necessary, and weight is not the issue. It;s nearly impossible to keep lobsters alive in shipping for more than 24 hours (read that as, 25+ hours), so they go by air if the truck can;t get there in time. And nothing quite matches the odor of dead lobster, even packed. Most airlines I know that take them do so with the caveat that if they are not picked up nearly immediately, they go in the trash.
Nothing flies cheap any more.
Frozen lobster sucks. Period. Good only for stew and, well,, stew.
I tolerate it from Google because they provide me a useful email service in exchange for access to my infor, and targeting ads that I overwhelmingly ignore (when I'm not gaming them for entertainment). My cable provider delivers to me a service I paid for already. If they which to further enhance their revenue stream by this or similar methods (beyond monitoring my set top already for channel changes and such), I may just clip the cable and move on.
And as others have mentioned, the real poroblem here is that the government, at all levels, will latch on to this data because, for lack of a better way to put it, they can. We will be fighting this for a long, long time.
Doesn't the SEC already have rules about communications? Maybe make some changes to those, such as requiring recordkeeping as a usual and customary process, and penalties when caught not keeping records. Even a single unlogged message could result in banishment, fines, or such.
If it's about specific crime, why are they asking for everything everywhere? Well, mostly because it is now possible. And that is a very very bad reason to permit such intrusion - just because they can.
Why wouldn't states seek additiknal revenuw from nonresidents, whenever possible? Stop thinking benevolently, and think like a bureaucrat.
Here in Arizona we have multiple taxes, at state, county, and municipal level.
But calling that a 'state' tax issue is misleading. It's the localities that really hose things up. And Phoenix goes one further, and taxes food at a different rate than merchandise. Yes, they tax food. And how they did it is even more disturbing than the fact that they do, but tha;'s the topic of several pages of posts, and not for this thread.
SCOTUS (especially the CJSCOTUS) seems to be willing to interpret the commerce clause fairly liberally. I have little hope of a solution there.
We are in a tax-it-all era. Expect your overall tax burden to grow linearly for the next decade unless some course change occurs.
Since increasing spending without regard for the consequences isn't really a problem, right?
Let's not forget one thing - when our repesentatives are largely categorized in only two ways, that is 1) those who keep increasing spending by all means possible without regard for consequunces, and 2) those who keep decreasing revenue AND increasing spending by all means possible without regard for consequunces, then we have a problem. The problem is our representatives actions. The solution? Obvious.
And no, sadly, the solution is not Ron Paul. I say sadly because he, I believe, would actually do what he says he would do. It's what he wants to do that I have trouble with, not the man's integrity or his motives, so far as I can discern them. He just seems to want to use some terrible methods to rein in our government, but I'm also afraid thaere is no other practical solution.
And remember, a drip loop does not involve a cable tie. Just sayin...
A Chock Full O' Nuts can may be a better choice, and if there isn't one already available, well, then that geek cred is shot, as well as all the fantasies I have about living in the desolate flat nowhere. But such is the stuff of reality. Go buy them some coffee. Better cantenna.
1. Not many econoboxes go from 0-60 in under 4 seconds.
2. An AC Cobra will wax a lot of today's performance cars.
3. It's also not always about the numbers.
It's called a distributor. It has a vacuum spark advance. It does not have a cat, nor ECU, nor EGR, or fuel injection.
Get over it. Your car is not my car.
Skating in the early 70s was a dreary exercise. I strapped a pack of NiCds onto an underdash cassette player tha happened to have a headphone jack, and presto, Skateman! yes, like wearing an iron on my belt.
Then I visited Manhattan for a training school and walked through J& R Music World. TPS-L2. Bliss.
You could Velcro a Walkman to the dash.
My idea of a vintage car with a sound system includes a big block and dual exhausts. You can't get that with Bluetooth.
And yes, on those cars, the accelerator is more than merely a volume control.
In that scenerio, UPS/FedEx/DHL are the key components. Shipping product is much easier than ever, I can buy stuff from HK on eBay and get it in a week if they care to mail it out the same day. I no longer have to wait for my buddy to come back from Japan and his traditional trip to the Akihabara to see the latest gumstick sized IDE/SATA/Firewire/USB gizmo for USD22. I can probably browse their page and get it mailed. If they are with it, I can chat and avoid the Jinglish, mostly.
If Microsoft doesn't change anything important. Apple releases a 'new version' of iOS almost yearly, but what changes? Other than toys, we don not know.
Sure will keep the script kiddies busy validating their tools agains 'new versions'. Security through churn. Interesting concept.
From the post I initially responded to:
"Under his administration he doubled the fuel economy standards for cars and light duty trucks."
No, he did not. He mandated the changes to take effect in the future. Difference. Emissions have not decreased one bit as a result of that action.