What is fascism?
What makes something fascist? I don't know anymore. It used to be relatively simple. It was defined by Mussolini but now everything is Fascist.
Hey - you libertarian over there are you for free speech and free markets? "Yup" Well, then, you're a fascist.
Now I'm not fond of either Google or Amazon.
I use Brave or Firefox, use DuckDuckGo unitl and unless I'm forced to go to Google. I've reduced my use of gmail. (Using protonmail)
It can't be because they oppose free speech and the free expression of ideas? Because then Antifa would be fascist? Right?
So, what the fuk is fascism.
For the uninitiated, fascism is a single party state with extreme nationalistic policies. This tends to put it on the far right.
What Fascism didn't have, was an economic ideology, however having happened in western Europe, fascist states simply continued using the free market, capitalist economies that existed before.
Things that Fascists believe in:
Nationalism - That the nation is superior.
Totalitarianism - Opposition will not be tolerated.
Direct action - Violence is used to enforce political ideologies.
Age and Gender roles - Tends to walk hand in hand with nationalism. Enforcing the idea that women belong in the home, children should be seen and not heard.
Palingenesis - Re-birth. Often fascist governments would try to completely change people, indoctrinate children, redefine languages, races and even change the entire past to suit their needs.
None of these are exclusive to fascism, but fascism combines them all.
Half of the gig economy is companies trying to cheap out on traditional worker benefits. Uber is one of them, and they can suck it up.
A worker-centric gig economy isn't managed by the platform: the workers should decide whether/how they deliver the goods or services, have some meaningful control over prices/profits, and be able to accrue a meaningful reputation.
If the gig platform forces its workers to behave 90% like employees, then yeah, round that number up and call them employees.
Half?
I think that is a very conservative estimate. The entire "gig" economy is about moving costs from the employer onto the employee, traditionally with contracting you were paid a huge premium over the full time equivalent salary for giving up your rights (paid holidays, pensions and what not) and job security (a contractor can be shown the door at any time, for any reason). The "gig" economy is trying to make everyone a contractor without giving them the benefits of a contractor.
But the "gig" economy isn't making money, not the employees, not the employers. So this ruling will simply hasten its inevitable demise.
VW products generally have separate (knob) HVAC controls, not the integrated junk that many other manufactures have stuck their customers with.
As do BMWs, Toyotas, Mercedes, Hondas Jaguars (that is pronounced Jag-U-ar, if we called it Jagwar, we'd spell it that way), in fact most new cars retain physical knobs, switches and buttons for the HVAC, Radio and other things you use on the move. Most British, Asian and German manufacturers do, its only the Americans who think different (OK, I haven't driven a new French car and frankly, never plan to). Journalists call this a "dated interior" though.
Only crappy manufacturers have swallowed the touchscreen hype and moved these functions behind them, the sad part is auto journalists are all too happy to felate anyone doing this. On my 2 series the touchscreen was an option (which I didn't pay for), if it had of been mandatory I would have walked out of the dealer (I almost did after feeling how lifeless an automatic M240i was, fortunately I bought a manual and it's a completely different car).
Researchers hinted they could have also went after the cars' braking and acceleration system, but stopped due to fear of breaking VW's intellectual property on those systems.
This is yet another example of how strong IP laws can help to protect a nations' citizens from evildoers.
Yes, hardened criminals intent on stealing your car will be stopped dead in their tracks by our onerous IP laws. Score one for the good guys.
First I thought they might actually make a Button Gwinnett bot... Then I opened the article and thought "Fcuk me, that's not creepy looking at all, definately wont scare small kids". Worse yet they're trying to give it a cutsie name like Pepper.
Tell me about it. I've seen things in my local grocery store selling at $1.19 per item that somehow magically cost $20 per item and only sold in boxes of 12 on Amazon.ca, shipping not included.
Here in the UK we have the opposite, there are so many things sold on Amazon that I couldn't buy in a 50 mile radius. I wanted vacuum cleaner bags for my vacuum... Not a single store in 20 miles had one. Amazon had them for £5 with next day delivery. I ordered them on Saturday, lo and behold they were delivered on a Sunday.
I'm still confused how this even happened. Is Trump such a dick that North Korea wants to be the good guys again because they're afraid for their safety? What is the state media narrative in North Korea right now?
State media... something about Dear Leader being a great peacemaker for the good of the great socialist republic or some such.
What actually happened was that China threatened to stop protecting North Korea. Most of this will have been driven by Beijing.
we think he's a proto-Hitler. He's not competent enough (or brutal enough) to be the next Hitler. What we're afraid of is that he's eroding the institutions that are supposed to stop the next (real) fascist. He's also probably going to tank the economy (between the Walstreet deregulation, massive debt for tax cuts and general graft and incompetence). And nothing helps a fascist rise to power better than an economic crash.
I know this all seems like hyperbole, but I also know that, as a historic fact, folks said the same thing back when Hitler came to power. Patter recognition. We humans can do it if we try...
So less of a Hitler and more of a Pinochet or Franco... although I suspect Franco was far more competent.
I'll say it out loud, the reason why Trump is compared to Hitler is that both of them made it popular and acceptable to openly be a bigot. However I cant see Trump holding together a government through force of will like Hitler did.
But I say "Presidential, professional: Who gives a fuck. People want real."
But they ended up with Trump... the most fake and pretend mother fucker of them all.
Trump is an example that people will happily flock to a pleasing lie that makes them feel better than accept a slightly uncomfortable truth. An extreme example.
So what you really meant to say was "Presidential, professional: Who gives a fuck. People want their egos massaged and biases confirmed"... because that's what Trump did. Hes as real as a page 3 girl's tits.
Most laptop lines have a weak spot. And it's the keyboard for the 12" MacBook and the MacBook Pro. Loads of people experience no problems whatsoever, but some do. I've had a Dell which had an old-fashioned harddrive that heated up the left palm rest. Very annoying. But not annoying enough to get rid of the machine.
I'm not buying that as Dell have always placed the HDD's on the bottom of the case to facilitate quick replacement.
Also that hard drive casings do not get hot enough to cause discomfort. They're expressly designed not to, I once had a WD 10K RPM VelociRaptor hard drive, they were called "VelociHeaters" because of their radiator like properties, even these could be removed after running for hours by the naked hand.
I suspect Tesla's method of using less hardware will be the main path in 15 years for autonomy, once we have car to car communications and car to traffic control communications as standard equipment in every vehicle and bugs worked out.
Will _all_ the bugs be worked out before, or after Pagani deliver my flying unicorn.
Profits double and Amazon raises Prime membership fees. Why? Because they can.
That and there still isn't anything quite like it.
If I want to order something from Tesco or Wilkes, I have to pay £3 or more for delivery... and there's no guarantee that is next day. With Amazon prime I pay £79 a year (probably £99 now) which means I just need to order 2.5 things a month to get my money's worth. That doesn't include Amazon Prime video.
The big advantage that I see for power seats over standard is the degree of adjustability. Not that my experience is encyclopedic or anything, but I've only ever seen 3 degrees of adjustment in a non-power seat. You can typically slide the seat forward or back, change the seat back angle, and sometimes adjust a lumbar support. With power seats you typically get all that and add on seat height adjustment as well as seat tilt. Additionally power seats usually have much finer control over those various settings.
I've never seen it.
I don't have Parkinsons, so I can adjust seats manually with a much finer degree and far faster than automatic ones.
Then again, most people are terrible at adjusting their seats... the number of cars I've gotten into with the seat titled back, I guess these people want a serious neck injury.
If people were willing to buy a 20hp car with no heater, no AC, no electronics, no radial tires, no electric starter, no air bags, no power seats, a life span of 50,000 miles or so, and that needed servicing every month, I'm sure there would be a $4286 car available today.
A Dacia Sandero costs less than £6000 which has no AC and no power seats*, but has all the rest that is required by law.
* Why oh why do people get these, when I was spec'ing my 2 series powered seats were the easiest option to say no to. Even easier than saying no to the automatic tranny, why would I want to hold a button down for 10 seconds to achieve what I could do by hand in 2? Most useless option ever.
Ford currently sells five models of sedans: Taurus, Focus RS, Fiesta, Mustang, and Focus Active. They're phasing out the first three models over the next few years, to be replaced with all new electric and hybrid models. Still spending a bit to keep the other two in production for the foreseeable future though.
Erm... I think you need to look up the meaning of sedan, it's 4 doors and a boot.
The Focus RS and Fiesta are hatchbacks, the Mustang is a coupe and the Focus Active is a jacked up hatchback (called a SUV).
The Focus can be had as a Sedan, but not in the RS spec.
I think Honda might have been the first to do this about three decades ago when they based all their cars on just two flexible platforms. The Accord, TL, RL, TSX, Crosstour... all the same car. The smaller was the Civic and the RSX. The SUVs are similar, Pilot/MDX and CRV/RDX. They keep changing the model names to throw us off the trail, but the manufacturing is very carefully designed to minimize infrastructure, support, and design. I never figured out where the odd US models like Fit and Element fit that scheme, but they sure seemed expensive for so few units if they were unique.
Many of these cars are based on the same platform but aren't the same car they use the same chassis but often have different bodies, engines and sometimes even drivetrains and suspension components. Japanese manufacturers have been doing this for decades, European and American manufacturers have also fully converted over to modular platforms. Honda are one of the few manufacturers not to name their platforms but they still do it, the Honda CRV is based off the Honda Civic chassis. Honda has 3 platforms currently, the Fit (City car), Civic (Compact) and Accord (full size), all of the their models are based off of these, even the Oddesey mini-van which uses an Accord chassis.
Also, the RSX, known everywhere else as the Honda integra, was a unique platform. A halo car in the FWD sector. In the entire run of the DC5, Honda didn't make a single dollar in profit from it, but they weren't meant to be profitable, rather to show that Honda was still innovative. The Integra was not used as a platform, neither was the S2000 or NSX.
Ford stops selling vehicles that consume less gas in line with new mobility taxes so only the rich can travel. Affordable vehicles wreaked havoc when the peasant population was able to leave areas with shitty abusive systems in place.
It really has to do with Price.
Most small cars in the US are Japanese or Korean, even the Chevy's, the dreadful Spark and Cruze are designed by GM Daewoo, built in Korea and assembled in Mexico. Most of Ford's small cars are made in Europe, Focus, Fiesta, Mondeo (Taurus/Fusion). That means they're often of a higher quality than their counterparts but are more expensive. Ford cant sell them for a profit when they're put up against Corollas, Civics and i30's (which will run forever), or Dodge/GM cars which are made in cheaper countries.
Ford also cant bring over the decent ones like the ST and RS versions because they'll strip sales away from the Mustang. So Ford US is simply giving up on that market share.
Long and low hoods might look nice, but they're dangerous. The Jaguar E-Type and third generation Corvettes are incredible looking, but they're relics from a time when we didn't care about safety. The efficiency trade-off is worth it.
Not only do they look nice, but they're also aerodynamic. Low drag means less fuel burned, faster cornering means less acceleration. I mean are you trying to kill the entire planet with your SUV that has the aerodynamics of a brick which produces more drag than Ru Paul?
I'll have the F-type thanks, in a manual. Blue, with a black leather interior because I'm not geriatric or homosexual enough to have cream leather.
Whilst I do laud the safety features in cars, things that make a difference like airbags, anti-lock brakes, seatbelts and seatbelt pre-tensioners... sometimes health and fucking safety has really gone stark raving mad and I'm not one given to using that phrase readily (that's for angry Daily Mail readers tweeting in their underpants... Its your fault for reading the bloody Daily Mail and put some trousers on you dirty old scrote). So the long, sleek bonnet is slightly more likely to injure a pedestrian... Maybe pedestrians should look both ways before crossing the road and not run out in front of moving cars. I guarantee it that more people are mowed down by SUV drivers not paying attention in their 5 star EuroNCAP crapboxes than are killed by the long swooping bonnets of the world so which one should we be banning?
Sorry for cutting out most of your post (for brevity's sake), I agree with you completely.
It should be noted that Alfie Evans' parents are not rich people. In fact they're barely even middle class. Should Alfie have had been born in the United States to parents who worked blue collar jobs, the insurance company would have turned off the life support after the FIRST doctor gave a terminal diagnosis, let alone waited 2 years for the umpteenth appeal. That's if their insurance covered it at all. Under the US system, we wouldn't even know about Alfie Evans, he'd just be another anonymous infant mortality statistic. The NHS kept him alive long after most other systems would have given him up.
So allow me to echo the parent poster's sentiment. Fuck off with your spin.
I'm sorry, but there are just no free market solutions to health care.
Depends on what you mean by "free market".
True that there is no laissez faire "libertarian" solutions and that all that have been tried have been or are abject failures, but the free market can still play a part. I'm a big fan of universal health care, for all it's problems the NHS here in the UK does it's job well and relatively efficiently but the government provides the minimum standard of care, should you want anything further than the market can and should be able to provide. Keep in mind I'm not really talking about needed surgery here, rather giving you the option of a standard NHS bed, or a private ward/hospital should one wish to part with some extra cash. Government services set the standard (which for us here in the UK, is a good standard, despite what the Daily Mail says) but private industry can provide extras.
Public and private systems are not incompatible with each other, the difference is that the public system is nessasary and cheaper.
Why does Amazon wants access to a car or my house?
Here's a $50 solution
1) Get large crate, fix it in place to prevent removal
2) Get padlock
3) Leave padlock inside crate
4) Delivery guy places package in crate
5) Delivery guy uses padlock, locks crate
6) Get home, use only key to open padlock
7) Get package
8) ???
9) PROFIT!
And before people start tearing down this idea, ask yourself, is the flaw you found worse than "letting a stranger in my home"....
I have no issue with your idea... but it sounds like you want to patent a letter box.
I just get shit delivered to my workplace. Sometimes I have to sign for it (ID check requirements if I'm mail ordering booze here in the UK, they don't actually check my ID, but I have to accept the package in person).
With the Chinese, at least the government is the doing the scoring, so you can understand the nature of the beast, with the US, you're really throwing yourself on the court of public opinion and hoping it isn't spun by Fox News.
And providing your social media accounts is now mandatory to enter the US.
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Amazon and Google are fascist. OK.
What is fascism?
What makes something fascist? I don't know anymore. It used to be relatively simple. It was defined by Mussolini but now everything is Fascist.
Hey - you libertarian over there are you for free speech and free markets? "Yup" Well, then, you're a fascist.
Now I'm not fond of either Google or Amazon.
I use Brave or Firefox, use DuckDuckGo unitl and unless I'm forced to go to Google. I've reduced my use of gmail. (Using protonmail)
It can't be because they oppose free speech and the free expression of ideas? Because then Antifa would be fascist? Right?
So, what the fuk is fascism.
For the uninitiated, fascism is a single party state with extreme nationalistic policies. This tends to put it on the far right.
What Fascism didn't have, was an economic ideology, however having happened in western Europe, fascist states simply continued using the free market, capitalist economies that existed before.
Things that Fascists believe in:
Nationalism - That the nation is superior.
Totalitarianism - Opposition will not be tolerated.
Direct action - Violence is used to enforce political ideologies.
Age and Gender roles - Tends to walk hand in hand with nationalism. Enforcing the idea that women belong in the home, children should be seen and not heard.
Palingenesis - Re-birth. Often fascist governments would try to completely change people, indoctrinate children, redefine languages, races and even change the entire past to suit their needs.
None of these are exclusive to fascism, but fascism combines them all.
Half of the gig economy is companies trying to cheap out on traditional worker benefits. Uber is one of them, and they can suck it up.
A worker-centric gig economy isn't managed by the platform: the workers should decide whether/how they deliver the goods or services, have some meaningful control over prices/profits, and be able to accrue a meaningful reputation.
If the gig platform forces its workers to behave 90% like employees, then yeah, round that number up and call them employees.
Half?
I think that is a very conservative estimate. The entire "gig" economy is about moving costs from the employer onto the employee, traditionally with contracting you were paid a huge premium over the full time equivalent salary for giving up your rights (paid holidays, pensions and what not) and job security (a contractor can be shown the door at any time, for any reason). The "gig" economy is trying to make everyone a contractor without giving them the benefits of a contractor.
But the "gig" economy isn't making money, not the employees, not the employers. So this ruling will simply hasten its inevitable demise.
Thanks to your snobbery in regards to pronunciation Americans now pronounce Jaguar like "jaggy wire."
I can't even begin to tell you how much I hate you now.
Good, let your hate teach you how to pronounce Jaguar properly.
I on the other hand with smirk with mild amusement and drink tea. Toodle pipsky.
VW products generally have separate (knob) HVAC controls, not the integrated junk that many other manufactures have stuck their customers with.
As do BMWs, Toyotas, Mercedes, Hondas Jaguars (that is pronounced Jag-U-ar, if we called it Jagwar, we'd spell it that way), in fact most new cars retain physical knobs, switches and buttons for the HVAC, Radio and other things you use on the move. Most British, Asian and German manufacturers do, its only the Americans who think different (OK, I haven't driven a new French car and frankly, never plan to). Journalists call this a "dated interior" though.
Only crappy manufacturers have swallowed the touchscreen hype and moved these functions behind them, the sad part is auto journalists are all too happy to felate anyone doing this. On my 2 series the touchscreen was an option (which I didn't pay for), if it had of been mandatory I would have walked out of the dealer (I almost did after feeling how lifeless an automatic M240i was, fortunately I bought a manual and it's a completely different car).
Researchers hinted they could have also went after the cars' braking and acceleration system, but stopped due to fear of breaking VW's intellectual property on those systems.
This is yet another example of how strong IP laws can help to protect a nations' citizens from evildoers.
Yes, hardened criminals intent on stealing your car will be stopped dead in their tracks by our onerous IP laws. Score one for the good guys.
First I thought they might actually make a Button Gwinnett bot... Then I opened the article and thought "Fcuk me, that's not creepy looking at all, definately wont scare small kids". Worse yet they're trying to give it a cutsie name like Pepper.
Tell me about it. I've seen things in my local grocery store selling at $1.19 per item that somehow magically cost $20 per item and only sold in boxes of 12 on Amazon.ca, shipping not included.
Here in the UK we have the opposite, there are so many things sold on Amazon that I couldn't buy in a 50 mile radius. I wanted vacuum cleaner bags for my vacuum... Not a single store in 20 miles had one. Amazon had them for £5 with next day delivery. I ordered them on Saturday, lo and behold they were delivered on a Sunday.
I'm still confused how this even happened. Is Trump such a dick that North Korea wants to be the good guys again because they're afraid for their safety? What is the state media narrative in North Korea right now?
State media... something about Dear Leader being a great peacemaker for the good of the great socialist republic or some such.
What actually happened was that China threatened to stop protecting North Korea. Most of this will have been driven by Beijing.
we think he's a proto-Hitler. He's not competent enough (or brutal enough) to be the next Hitler. What we're afraid of is that he's eroding the institutions that are supposed to stop the next (real) fascist. He's also probably going to tank the economy (between the Walstreet deregulation, massive debt for tax cuts and general graft and incompetence). And nothing helps a fascist rise to power better than an economic crash.
I know this all seems like hyperbole, but I also know that, as a historic fact, folks said the same thing back when Hitler came to power. Patter recognition. We humans can do it if we try...
So less of a Hitler and more of a Pinochet or Franco... although I suspect Franco was far more competent.
I'll say it out loud, the reason why Trump is compared to Hitler is that both of them made it popular and acceptable to openly be a bigot. However I cant see Trump holding together a government through force of will like Hitler did.
Spot on.
But I say "Presidential, professional: Who gives a fuck. People want real."
But they ended up with Trump... the most fake and pretend mother fucker of them all.
Trump is an example that people will happily flock to a pleasing lie that makes them feel better than accept a slightly uncomfortable truth. An extreme example.
So what you really meant to say was "Presidential, professional: Who gives a fuck. People want their egos massaged and biases confirmed"... because that's what Trump did. Hes as real as a page 3 girl's tits.
Most laptop lines have a weak spot. And it's the keyboard for the 12" MacBook and the MacBook Pro. Loads of people experience no problems whatsoever, but some do. I've had a Dell which had an old-fashioned harddrive that heated up the left palm rest. Very annoying. But not annoying enough to get rid of the machine.
I'm not buying that as Dell have always placed the HDD's on the bottom of the case to facilitate quick replacement.
Also that hard drive casings do not get hot enough to cause discomfort. They're expressly designed not to, I once had a WD 10K RPM VelociRaptor hard drive, they were called "VelociHeaters" because of their radiator like properties, even these could be removed after running for hours by the naked hand.
I suspect Tesla's method of using less hardware will be the main path in 15 years for autonomy, once we have car to car communications and car to traffic control communications as standard equipment in every vehicle and bugs worked out.
Will _all_ the bugs be worked out before, or after Pagani deliver my flying unicorn.
Profits double and Amazon raises Prime membership fees. Why? Because they can.
That and there still isn't anything quite like it.
If I want to order something from Tesco or Wilkes, I have to pay £3 or more for delivery... and there's no guarantee that is next day. With Amazon prime I pay £79 a year (probably £99 now) which means I just need to order 2.5 things a month to get my money's worth. That doesn't include Amazon Prime video.
The big advantage that I see for power seats over standard is the degree of adjustability. Not that my experience is encyclopedic or anything, but I've only ever seen 3 degrees of adjustment in a non-power seat. You can typically slide the seat forward or back, change the seat back angle, and sometimes adjust a lumbar support. With power seats you typically get all that and add on seat height adjustment as well as seat tilt. Additionally power seats usually have much finer control over those various settings.
I've never seen it.
I don't have Parkinsons, so I can adjust seats manually with a much finer degree and far faster than automatic ones.
Then again, most people are terrible at adjusting their seats... the number of cars I've gotten into with the seat titled back, I guess these people want a serious neck injury.
'cause Lotto Belgium is a game of skill.
They have a permit and pay a shitload of taxes. Also they require the player to verify that they are 18 or over.
If people were willing to buy a 20hp car with no heater, no AC, no electronics, no radial tires, no electric starter, no air bags, no power seats, a life span of 50,000 miles or so, and that needed servicing every month, I'm sure there would be a $4286 car available today.
A Dacia Sandero costs less than £6000 which has no AC and no power seats*, but has all the rest that is required by law.
* Why oh why do people get these, when I was spec'ing my 2 series powered seats were the easiest option to say no to. Even easier than saying no to the automatic tranny, why would I want to hold a button down for 10 seconds to achieve what I could do by hand in 2? Most useless option ever.
Ford currently sells five models of sedans: Taurus, Focus RS, Fiesta, Mustang, and Focus Active. They're phasing out the first three models over the next few years, to be replaced with all new electric and hybrid models. Still spending a bit to keep the other two in production for the foreseeable future though.
Erm... I think you need to look up the meaning of sedan, it's 4 doors and a boot.
The Focus RS and Fiesta are hatchbacks, the Mustang is a coupe and the Focus Active is a jacked up hatchback (called a SUV).
The Focus can be had as a Sedan, but not in the RS spec.
I think Honda might have been the first to do this about three decades ago when they based all their cars on just two flexible platforms. The Accord, TL, RL, TSX, Crosstour... all the same car. The smaller was the Civic and the RSX. The SUVs are similar, Pilot/MDX and CRV/RDX. They keep changing the model names to throw us off the trail, but the manufacturing is very carefully designed to minimize infrastructure, support, and design. I never figured out where the odd US models like Fit and Element fit that scheme, but they sure seemed expensive for so few units if they were unique.
Many of these cars are based on the same platform but aren't the same car they use the same chassis but often have different bodies, engines and sometimes even drivetrains and suspension components. Japanese manufacturers have been doing this for decades, European and American manufacturers have also fully converted over to modular platforms. Honda are one of the few manufacturers not to name their platforms but they still do it, the Honda CRV is based off the Honda Civic chassis. Honda has 3 platforms currently, the Fit (City car), Civic (Compact) and Accord (full size), all of the their models are based off of these, even the Oddesey mini-van which uses an Accord chassis. Also, the RSX, known everywhere else as the Honda integra, was a unique platform. A halo car in the FWD sector. In the entire run of the DC5, Honda didn't make a single dollar in profit from it, but they weren't meant to be profitable, rather to show that Honda was still innovative. The Integra was not used as a platform, neither was the S2000 or NSX.
Ford stops selling vehicles that consume less gas in line with new mobility taxes so only the rich can travel. Affordable vehicles wreaked havoc when the peasant population was able to leave areas with shitty abusive systems in place.
It really has to do with Price.
Most small cars in the US are Japanese or Korean, even the Chevy's, the dreadful Spark and Cruze are designed by GM Daewoo, built in Korea and assembled in Mexico. Most of Ford's small cars are made in Europe, Focus, Fiesta, Mondeo (Taurus/Fusion). That means they're often of a higher quality than their counterparts but are more expensive. Ford cant sell them for a profit when they're put up against Corollas, Civics and i30's (which will run forever), or Dodge/GM cars which are made in cheaper countries.
Ford also cant bring over the decent ones like the ST and RS versions because they'll strip sales away from the Mustang. So Ford US is simply giving up on that market share.
Long and low hoods might look nice, but they're dangerous. The Jaguar E-Type and third generation Corvettes are incredible looking, but they're relics from a time when we didn't care about safety. The efficiency trade-off is worth it.
Not only do they look nice, but they're also aerodynamic. Low drag means less fuel burned, faster cornering means less acceleration. I mean are you trying to kill the entire planet with your SUV that has the aerodynamics of a brick which produces more drag than Ru Paul?
I'll have the F-type thanks, in a manual. Blue, with a black leather interior because I'm not geriatric or homosexual enough to have cream leather.
Whilst I do laud the safety features in cars, things that make a difference like airbags, anti-lock brakes, seatbelts and seatbelt pre-tensioners... sometimes health and fucking safety has really gone stark raving mad and I'm not one given to using that phrase readily (that's for angry Daily Mail readers tweeting in their underpants... Its your fault for reading the bloody Daily Mail and put some trousers on you dirty old scrote). So the long, sleek bonnet is slightly more likely to injure a pedestrian... Maybe pedestrians should look both ways before crossing the road and not run out in front of moving cars. I guarantee it that more people are mowed down by SUV drivers not paying attention in their 5 star EuroNCAP crapboxes than are killed by the long swooping bonnets of the world so which one should we be banning?
Hey, nice spin.
Sorry for cutting out most of your post (for brevity's sake), I agree with you completely.
It should be noted that Alfie Evans' parents are not rich people. In fact they're barely even middle class. Should Alfie have had been born in the United States to parents who worked blue collar jobs, the insurance company would have turned off the life support after the FIRST doctor gave a terminal diagnosis, let alone waited 2 years for the umpteenth appeal. That's if their insurance covered it at all. Under the US system, we wouldn't even know about Alfie Evans, he'd just be another anonymous infant mortality statistic. The NHS kept him alive long after most other systems would have given him up.
So allow me to echo the parent poster's sentiment. Fuck off with your spin.
I'm sorry, but there are just no free market solutions to health care.
Depends on what you mean by "free market".
True that there is no laissez faire "libertarian" solutions and that all that have been tried have been or are abject failures, but the free market can still play a part. I'm a big fan of universal health care, for all it's problems the NHS here in the UK does it's job well and relatively efficiently but the government provides the minimum standard of care, should you want anything further than the market can and should be able to provide. Keep in mind I'm not really talking about needed surgery here, rather giving you the option of a standard NHS bed, or a private ward/hospital should one wish to part with some extra cash. Government services set the standard (which for us here in the UK, is a good standard, despite what the Daily Mail says) but private industry can provide extras.
Public and private systems are not incompatible with each other, the difference is that the public system is nessasary and cheaper.
Why does Amazon wants access to a car or my house?
Here's a $50 solution
1) Get large crate, fix it in place to prevent removal
2) Get padlock
3) Leave padlock inside crate
4) Delivery guy places package in crate
5) Delivery guy uses padlock, locks crate
6) Get home, use only key to open padlock
7) Get package
8) ???
9) PROFIT!
And before people start tearing down this idea, ask yourself, is the flaw you found worse than "letting a stranger in my home"....
I have no issue with your idea... but it sounds like you want to patent a letter box.
I just get shit delivered to my workplace. Sometimes I have to sign for it (ID check requirements if I'm mail ordering booze here in the UK, they don't actually check my ID, but I have to accept the package in person).
Instructions to delivery service: Just move dead body over to the side if package will not fit between legs.
Vehicle: Yellow Camaro, License Plate: S1RL K1LLR.
..and thought 'That's a good idea!'.... Scary..
With the Chinese, at least the government is the doing the scoring, so you can understand the nature of the beast, with the US, you're really throwing yourself on the court of public opinion and hoping it isn't spun by Fox News.
And providing your social media accounts is now mandatory to enter the US.