Pre 9/11 the public had little tolerance for losing soldiers. So stealth, drones, and cruise missiles became popular because you could kill brown people without putting out boys in harms way and everyone was happy. After 9/11 people don't care to much about our boys as long as we kill lots of brown people. So it's dumb to have expensive highly survivable aircraft. What we need is lots of cheap planes that can carry lots of dumb bombs. When was the last time you saw a military death on the news? It kind of stopped once Obama was elected.
OK it wasn't that portable. But I stripped an NES and put it in a casset tape case with enough D cells to get it to run. Then I took one of those small Casio pocket TV's and connected it. I also put in a car adapter plug since it didn't run long on batteries. It was pretty cludged together but we could play NES games in the car during long road trips.
From the pictures it looked like the 120V from the power cord was not protected in any way. If you plugged it in and touched the wrong place you could have had a nasty shock.
The reason people are leaving the Middle East and Africa has zero to do with the actual climate. It's the political climate and spdcificay the U.S. Policy of overthrowing secular governments.
And nobody has shown in any way that taxing consumers Trillions of dollars to enrich the elites running the credit trading schemes will do anything to reducing warming (or whatever we are worried about today). We do know it will destroy economies.
Didn't sound like a personal attack. The solution is to allow a free market in money, gold, silver, bitcoin, tulip bulbs, Amex gift cards, etc. When you give anyone the power to create money out of nothing expect it to be abused and the powerful to fight for that control.
There is a cost/benefit analysis you need to do before you live anywhere. A city has lots of access to goods and services but is expensive. The middle of nowhere is beautiful and peaceful but you miss the benefits of society. But if you vote for the right politician you can have both by forcing other people to subsidize your costs of living in the middle of nowhere.
Of course companies fail. That is the entire point to a free market and why it works. The free market optimizes the problem of who gets to control resources. If a company fails to generate profits that means it is using more resources than the customers give it. It then goes out of business and the resources are freed up to more profitable companies to make use of.
Government is the exact opposite. If a department does its job well and actually reduces a problem its budget stagnates. If it does a very poor job it claims it needs more resources and is typically given them. It also intervenes in the markets when a company is politically connected and "too big to fail". The market determines a company is wasting resources and it needs to go out of business. The government taxes the profitable companies and gives it to the bankrupt ones as a bailout.
Rubbish. The actual quantity of money in the economy is irrelevant. People that hoard money are equivalent to people doing volunteer work. You are producing but not consuming. This makes good cheaper for everyone else.
When I was a 10 year old kid in the 80's I made a trip wire detector. It was a short length of tubing with a piezo buzzer and a Mercury switch and batteries. When it was verticals you would flip a switch and if it was knocked over it would beep. We used it for hide and seek in the woods. Well one got lost and turned up in the street and a kid brought it to his mom. She called the cops and they asked my "friend" if he knew who built it and he ratted me out. The cops came to my house and questioned me for a while and since this was the 80'd my parents weren't home. He made me go and identify the device and then let me go with a warning to be careful.
Tell that to my Canadian friends sister who lived in Canada. She was 30 years old when she was diagnosed with Stomach Cancer. Of course it took her too long to get the scans she needed and when she was finally diagnosed they couldn't afford to treat her. She was single with no kids so I'm guessing it was an easy call to make for them to make. Sacrificing an individual to keep costs down is typical. That's how you get the best overall outcome per money spent.
If she lived in the US she would be alive. Maybe she would have been bankrupted by the costs if she didn't have insurance but at least she would have been alive.
The real deal is NHS is killing the UK. So if they can get people to use homeopathy instead of science they can save money while letting stupid people die. This is typical rationing with state healthcare.
Exactly. Find a cheap printer and a cheap continuous ink sytem. Eventually the ink jams up the head but who cares. You saved plenty of money in ink to buy a new printer.
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Pre 9/11 the public had little tolerance for losing soldiers. So stealth, drones, and cruise missiles became popular because you could kill brown people without putting out boys in harms way and everyone was happy. After 9/11 people don't care to much about our boys as long as we kill lots of brown people. So it's dumb to have expensive highly survivable aircraft. What we need is lots of cheap planes that can carry lots of dumb bombs. When was the last time you saw a military death on the news? It kind of stopped once Obama was elected.
We don't have car inspections in Florida. Sell your used one here.
OK it wasn't that portable. But I stripped an NES and put it in a casset tape case with enough D cells to get it to run. Then I took one of those small Casio pocket TV's and connected it. I also put in a car adapter plug since it didn't run long on batteries. It was pretty cludged together but we could play NES games in the car during long road trips.
When I was 15 (in 1990) I built one of those as well. Except it was an official project in my electronics class. Those were the days.
From the pictures it looked like the 120V from the power cord was not protected in any way. If you plugged it in and touched the wrong place you could have had a nasty shock.
The reason people are leaving the Middle East and Africa has zero to do with the actual climate. It's the political climate and spdcificay the U.S. Policy of overthrowing secular governments.
And nobody has shown in any way that taxing consumers Trillions of dollars to enrich the elites running the credit trading schemes will do anything to reducing warming (or whatever we are worried about today). We do know it will destroy economies.
Like fluoride?
http://www.coolantarctica.com/...
Didn't sound like a personal attack. The solution is to allow a free market in money, gold, silver, bitcoin, tulip bulbs, Amex gift cards, etc. When you give anyone the power to create money out of nothing expect it to be abused and the powerful to fight for that control.
If they are rich they can afford their own fire protection.
Only if you consider the Central Banks abort to flood the market with cheap money inflating bubbles a part of the free market.
So can I build a house in the middle of the Antarctic and get others to pay for my power and cell phone?
There is a cost/benefit analysis you need to do before you live anywhere. A city has lots of access to goods and services but is expensive. The middle of nowhere is beautiful and peaceful but you miss the benefits of society. But if you vote for the right politician you can have both by forcing other people to subsidize your costs of living in the middle of nowhere.
Of course companies fail. That is the entire point to a free market and why it works. The free market optimizes the problem of who gets to control resources. If a company fails to generate profits that means it is using more resources than the customers give it. It then goes out of business and the resources are freed up to more profitable companies to make use of.
Government is the exact opposite. If a department does its job well and actually reduces a problem its budget stagnates. If it does a very poor job it claims it needs more resources and is typically given them. It also intervenes in the markets when a company is politically connected and "too big to fail". The market determines a company is wasting resources and it needs to go out of business. The government taxes the profitable companies and gives it to the bankrupt ones as a bailout.
These are the se type of people that suspend kids for biting breakfast pastries into gun shapes. Modern education is run by C+ students.
Rubbish. The actual quantity of money in the economy is irrelevant. People that hoard money are equivalent to people doing volunteer work. You are producing but not consuming. This makes good cheaper for everyone else.
if Apple holds onto the cash it just gets reflected in share price.
I'm already embarrassed working for the US government.
When I was a 10 year old kid in the 80's I made a trip wire detector. It was a short length of tubing with a piezo buzzer and a Mercury switch and batteries. When it was verticals you would flip a switch and if it was knocked over it would beep. We used it for hide and seek in the woods. Well one got lost and turned up in the street and a kid brought it to his mom.
She called the cops and they asked my "friend" if he knew who built it and he ratted me out. The cops came to my house and questioned me for a while and since this was the 80'd my parents weren't home. He made me go and identify the device and then let me go with a warning to be careful.
There are a couple of locations on the rims of craters on the lunar poles that receive sunlight nearly all of the time.
http://www.airspacemag.com/dai...
Where are my mod points when I need them?
Tell that to my Canadian friends sister who lived in Canada. She was 30 years old when she was diagnosed with Stomach Cancer. Of course it took her too long to get the scans she needed and when she was finally diagnosed they couldn't afford to treat her. She was single with no kids so I'm guessing it was an easy call to make for them to make. Sacrificing an individual to keep costs down is typical. That's how you get the best overall outcome per money spent.
If she lived in the US she would be alive. Maybe she would have been bankrupted by the costs if she didn't have insurance but at least she would have been alive.
The real deal is NHS is killing the UK. So if they can get people to use homeopathy instead of science they can save money while letting stupid people die. This is typical rationing with state healthcare.
Exactly. Find a cheap printer and a cheap continuous ink sytem. Eventually the ink jams up the head but who cares. You saved plenty of money in ink to buy a new printer.