For the initial units, yes. The railway and cars were then duplicated, including the processes and tools needed. At least that's what they did on the Shanghai-Nanjing leg (which I've ridden way too many times).
We also have a much more "Darwin Elimination Prone" population. The small towns in Europe aren't serviced by every train that goes through - and if the train is going to skip the town, it doesn't slow down and barrels across at-grade crossings at 100 kph or more. Here in the US, trains slow down for at-grade crossings to 30 kph. That really causes a big slow-down in overall commute times.
How could a guy that makes such nice looking phones and tablets (and I'm no fan of Apple, but their stuff is pretty) make the ugliest yacht I have ever seen?
Steve didn't design the phones and tablets; Jonathan Ive did. Perhaps Steve should have let Ive handle the design of the yacht?
I then confessed that I didn't know what it meant that somehow I was able to remember Finwe's name easily, even though it'd been years since I'd read the Silmarillion, yet I had a hard time recalling names of co-workers I had worked closely with a few years back. What does that mean? How does THAT fit into 'IQ?'
Quite a bit, actually - we see it a lot here in Santa Barbara. Just this morning it was quite foggy, in fact. But for actual rain? We get about 30cm a year - a "rain event" of 1cm is impressive enough to get a "Severe Weather Alert" going.
It doesn't matter either way. Here in the UK for example the government has a corporate tax rate of something like 21%, yet Amazon paid no corporation tax on £7bn worth of sales.
It doesn't matter how they managed to do it, the point is the intention is clearly that they pay 21% of that in tax so the government has every right to collect that from them retroactively even if it means they technically did nothing wrong at the time.
I see... So the Government sets up rules. Amazon plays by those rules. Then the Government can retroactively declare the rules don't matter any more and still take what they want. That's a brilliant way to run a nation - you'd make Mugabe proud!
Why? Once you've quantified the leak, then you can get the local utilities board to raise rates to compensate for the loss. Result: don't have to spend $500 million to fix it and you get your "customers" to pay extra to cover the loss. Win/win for the utility!
Climate is the integral of weather over time, just like climate for a day or week it the integral of weather over smaller time periods. You want to argue about the limits, that's fine - but to deny they're the same thing is plain wrong.
In the absence of data about energy expenditure, you cannot make such a claim about increasing weight. Go through full boot camp training every day and 4000 calories won't be enough. You need to know the entire system, and that's one of the problems with climate change models - there are large areas where we simply don't know what happens. And as a result we end up with things like Trenberth's missing heat because the model has those holes and the results don't correlate with the hypothesis.
Have you heard about the Motorola Droid series? The 3 and 4 are both great sliders, great screens, and about the same size as their older CLIQ. Also have MicroSD card slots internally.
Greece is doing exactly what the Republicans want you to do, cut spending in the middle of a recession (inherited from Bush). Of course the deficit needs to be reduced - in the long run. Now is not the time to do it. People are still willing to lend the US money at cheap rates. Use them to get the economy going, then cut spending and/or increase taxes. I wish more people understood that running the economy of an entire country is very different from running their private economy.
Wait, I thought our President declared the recession over, back in 2009? And that we're well into a recovery? Isn't it about time we start looking at spending (which has DRAMATICALLY accelerated in the last 4 years), and passing a budget? Or do we have to wait until we're $22 trillion in debt first, before we start look at cutting spending?
The solution is to allocate each district how it votes. Blue districts in Texas would go to the Democrats, red districts in California would go to the GOP. No need to do proportional allotment, let each district go as it votes, just like it does for its representative. Then allocate the two electors representing the Senators go to the State's overall popular vote.
The electoral college is necessary to balance power between large and small states. Civics education in this country is going down the pooper.
I think you're confusing the Senate with the Electoral College. The distribution of electors by state within the electoral college is determined by each state's population. So no, it does not keep any kind of "balance" between large and small states.
Sorry, you're wrong. Electors are allocated to each State based upon the number of Representatives AND Senators they have. Thus a State with a tiny population (Wyoming) has 3 electors - one for its Representative and two for its Senators. Electors are allocated as a State has members in Congress - it is based upon the Senate, as a result.
"Which was already shown not to work."
A) That's not true
B) China is hugely successful Communist government.
China, communist? In name only. It's a fascist oligarchy. There are really no traces of communism there other than the label. No real social safety net, no guarantee of communal support. In many ways, the US is much more further along the socialist/communist scale than China. But I guess because they call themselves "Communist" they must be.
And North Korea really IS a Democratic Republic...
Check the constant-dollar per-capita taxes collected back in those 90% times... You'll find it was HALF what it is today (for example, back during Eisenhower versus now). The nominal tax rate was high, but the effective tax rate was half what it is today, due to massive deductions available.
Seriously? Comparing an entire province (like a State) to a city? Go on a per-State basis, where New Jersey leads the pack in the US at 1189 people per square mile - less than Guangdong. Guangdong is extremely dense, as is most of the Eastern edge of China.
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For the initial units, yes. The railway and cars were then duplicated, including the processes and tools needed. At least that's what they did on the Shanghai-Nanjing leg (which I've ridden way too many times).
We also have a much more "Darwin Elimination Prone" population. The small towns in Europe aren't serviced by every train that goes through - and if the train is going to skip the town, it doesn't slow down and barrels across at-grade crossings at 100 kph or more. Here in the US, trains slow down for at-grade crossings to 30 kph. That really causes a big slow-down in overall commute times.
How could a guy that makes such nice looking phones and tablets (and I'm no fan of Apple, but their stuff is pretty) make the ugliest yacht I have ever seen?
Steve didn't design the phones and tablets; Jonathan Ive did. Perhaps Steve should have let Ive handle the design of the yacht?
When your posse's so big you have to walk in twos, I don't think it matters - you're swass AND cool!
I then confessed that I didn't know what it meant that somehow I was able to remember Finwe's name easily, even though it'd been years since I'd read the Silmarillion, yet I had a hard time recalling names of co-workers I had worked closely with a few years back. What does that mean? How does THAT fit into 'IQ?'
It means - you're a geek.
And I mean that in the kindest way possible.
This was Seattle, so it was done at Dick's Drive-In.
Language, currency and cultures often divide us, but the internet is one of the things unified in this world. Long may it stay that way.
Obviously you've stayed out of the iOS/Android fanboi fights...
Ghandi - vegetarian AND wore an adult diaper. Mother Teresa? Short and spoke with a fully accent... See, it can be done for ANYBODY!
Quite a bit, actually - we see it a lot here in Santa Barbara. Just this morning it was quite foggy, in fact. But for actual rain? We get about 30cm a year - a "rain event" of 1cm is impressive enough to get a "Severe Weather Alert" going.
Well you can't fault him for not speaking that foreign English english!
It doesn't matter either way. Here in the UK for example the government has a corporate tax rate of something like 21%, yet Amazon paid no corporation tax on £7bn worth of sales.
It doesn't matter how they managed to do it, the point is the intention is clearly that they pay 21% of that in tax so the government has every right to collect that from them retroactively even if it means they technically did nothing wrong at the time.
I see... So the Government sets up rules. Amazon plays by those rules. Then the Government can retroactively declare the rules don't matter any more and still take what they want. That's a brilliant way to run a nation - you'd make Mugabe proud!
Why? Once you've quantified the leak, then you can get the local utilities board to raise rates to compensate for the loss. Result: don't have to spend $500 million to fix it and you get your "customers" to pay extra to cover the loss. Win/win for the utility!
Climate is the integral of weather over time, just like climate for a day or week it the integral of weather over smaller time periods. You want to argue about the limits, that's fine - but to deny they're the same thing is plain wrong.
In the absence of data about energy expenditure, you cannot make such a claim about increasing weight. Go through full boot camp training every day and 4000 calories won't be enough. You need to know the entire system, and that's one of the problems with climate change models - there are large areas where we simply don't know what happens. And as a result we end up with things like Trenberth's missing heat because the model has those holes and the results don't correlate with the hypothesis.
After buying that iPhone and all the associated iGear, there's not much left for anything BUT the bus...
Can we also put an "opportunity cost" on not striking back as well or just standing put?
which has exceeded 3 trillion dollars. I'd gladly trade the money spent on war for a stable power grid that doesn't go down at the drop of a leaf
Source? Last I saw it was just under $1.4 trillion cumulative for the last 11 years...
Have you heard about the Motorola Droid series? The 3 and 4 are both great sliders, great screens, and about the same size as their older CLIQ. Also have MicroSD card slots internally.
Greece is doing exactly what the Republicans want you to do, cut spending in the middle of a recession (inherited from Bush). Of course the deficit needs to be reduced - in the long run. Now is not the time to do it. People are still willing to lend the US money at cheap rates. Use them to get the economy going, then cut spending and/or increase taxes. I wish more people understood that running the economy of an entire country is very different from running their private economy.
Wait, I thought our President declared the recession over, back in 2009? And that we're well into a recovery? Isn't it about time we start looking at spending (which has DRAMATICALLY accelerated in the last 4 years), and passing a budget? Or do we have to wait until we're $22 trillion in debt first, before we start look at cutting spending?
The solution is to allocate each district how it votes. Blue districts in Texas would go to the Democrats, red districts in California would go to the GOP. No need to do proportional allotment, let each district go as it votes, just like it does for its representative. Then allocate the two electors representing the Senators go to the State's overall popular vote.
The electoral college is necessary to balance power between large and small states. Civics education in this country is going down the pooper.
I think you're confusing the Senate with the Electoral College. The distribution of electors by state within the electoral college is determined by each state's population. So no, it does not keep any kind of "balance" between large and small states.
Sorry, you're wrong. Electors are allocated to each State based upon the number of Representatives AND Senators they have. Thus a State with a tiny population (Wyoming) has 3 electors - one for its Representative and two for its Senators. Electors are allocated as a State has members in Congress - it is based upon the Senate, as a result.
But wait! You see, this is poke limiting done on the Internet! Er, wait...
"Which was already shown not to work." A) That's not true B) China is hugely successful Communist government.
China, communist? In name only. It's a fascist oligarchy. There are really no traces of communism there other than the label. No real social safety net, no guarantee of communal support. In many ways, the US is much more further along the socialist/communist scale than China. But I guess because they call themselves "Communist" they must be.
And North Korea really IS a Democratic Republic...
Check the constant-dollar per-capita taxes collected back in those 90% times... You'll find it was HALF what it is today (for example, back during Eisenhower versus now). The nominal tax rate was high, but the effective tax rate was half what it is today, due to massive deductions available.
Seriously? Comparing an entire province (like a State) to a city? Go on a per-State basis, where New Jersey leads the pack in the US at 1189 people per square mile - less than Guangdong. Guangdong is extremely dense, as is most of the Eastern edge of China.