Iâ(TM)ll try and simplify this in terms you can understand.
Imagine if Obama did this same thing to white people.
Imagine if Obama used drones to kill unarmed American born citizens outside of a war zone with no due process? Oh, wait.
If only the US had some sort of aid program designed to try to make conditions more favourable in the sort of countries that economic migrants tend to flee from. Maybe the US could call it "US Aid" or something, and give it a decent budget rather than gutting it to save $23 per American
Yes the CIA would like its slush fund back as well as all the other scammers who were ripping that program off. It's was a great idea that, unfortunately, became a disaster
But the main issue is that the proper solution isÂobviouslyÂto have a formal, controlled, actually viable work visa system for economic migrants
You mean the migrant worker program that has been in place for decades? 25 years ago I moved to an area with lots of orchards. They bring in fruit pickers from Jamaica and did so for decades before I moved here. They would come in from Jamaica during harvest south of here and work their way north to pick fruit then go back to Jamaica and live off of what they made until the next year. They didn't pump huge sums of money into the economy.
Basic worker protections but not the minimum wages or benefits that citizens get. You drop off an application for a sponsoring company, and so long as you're employed with them and not causing problems, you can stay. Fired, laid off, or quit, and you go back to your country (where you can reapply for a different job).
That's basically how the migrant worker program was designed to work. On one hand I get it, it keeps prices in the US down. On the other hand it's an awful lot like indentured servitude.
And read up on the history of the Fukushima disaster. You could read up on the long history of engineers warning that a large tsunami was going to cause a meltdown and that it could be easily prevented by reinforcing and building up the wall that protected the area in order to buy time and then having off-site generators that could be brought on to prevent the meltdown from happening.
There was already a 19 foot seawall and the Fukushima plant was 33 feet above sea level. While I agree a larger seawall may have helped, it's not something that could have been done easily as you seem to imply. The tsunami that hit that area was anywhere from 44 to 49 feet depending on the source. That's would have required a damn big seawall.
There were onsite as well as offsite generators. Unfortunately the earthquake that preceded the tsunami took out the power lines between the offsite generators and the plant. having most of the onsite generators and batteries underground was a big issue too. I believe the one generator that kept functioning was one of the few that were above ground.
This is the problem with having a ruling class. They can do bad things to you and get away with it because they are above the law.
There's always a ruling class in any society on this planet. Colonial insects work this way, herd animals as well as pack hunters function this way too. In all honesty, human social structures have a lot more controls and punishments in place for the ruling class than other animals. Is it perfect? Of course not. But it's better than the rest of the animal kingdom.
You make all these assumptions about them, judge them... based all off things you failed to teach them about value. And now you're sitting here gloating about how the economic situation around them is different to how it was when you were young, and didn't need a smartphone for work. You even disclaim that they got the phones as part of a phone plan EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOU DO, but you have to inflate the cost of the plan dramatically to make your smug bullshit make sense.
Holy fuck. How stupid are you? Just about everyone's parents are doing better financially by the time they have kids vs. how they were doing when they left home. Why do younger folks think they should be doing just as well as their parents are doing as soon as they are out of school?
I grew up poor and left home in my mid teens. I worked 50 hours a week third shift my last two years in high school and worked full time to get my degree and did my first 2 years at community college to save money. There were times I lived off of peanuts and instant ramen. I see people bitching about being broke but somehow manage to stop by StarBucks once or twice per day.
No one needs the latest greatest shiny new phone. You can buy a used phone for a lot less. I usually get whatever the best used phone I can get for $200 these days. I see so many people getting a new $1000 phone every two years and have to wonder why. Just because someone who is in the later part of their career can afford that doesn't mean anyone should, nor should you think it's unfair that you can't do that at 25 years old.
You accuse them of doing the things you do badly because they have less resources than you do, as if this is proof of some generational thing... because it's obviously never occurred to you whose fault this is, because you're never to blame for anything that isn't brought to your attention you special fucking snowflake. Why didn't you teach them better habits? What kind of parent are you? A terrible one. It's amazing that they'd ask you for advice at all, based on what you've said. They either don't exist and you made them up for rhetorical purposes or they don't have friends because you failed to give them the opportunity to socialize.
It seems to be a generational thing. The amount of shit younger folks seem to think are necessities these days compared to when I was young is insane. When I was in high school I owned 2 pairs of jeans, a couple shirts, my couch was from goodwill along with my cookware. I didn't own a TV, or have a phone(land line) because I couldn't afford such things. I had a used acoustic guitar I got for $20 and an electric guitar because I played in bands for extra money.
After school I worked may ass off and eventually made decent money. It's kind of hard to listen your victimhood mentality.
That sounds like a good thing for consumers. I currently use a rewards card but I damn well know that everything (whether I use that card or not) is more expensive as a result of rewards cards existing.
Except this won't bring prices down. It just means Walmart, Amazon, etc profit margins will go up. So their stock prices will rise, CEOs will get a bonus, and the consumer will not get the rewards. There will be a year or so of playing credit card poker trying to figure out what card stores accept.
I never said it was a fantastic design or that McDonnell Douglas was an awesome company. All I stated was that the forklift issue that caused the crash in 1979 was supposedly fixed. The FAA/NTSB was satisfied with it. If the FAA/NTSB approval is not enough, then there's a bigger issue in the commercial flight industry.
The AA191 causes were supposedly resolved to the FAA's satisfaction. The issue with that DC10 was that using a forklift cut the maintenance time from over 60 hours to under 30. On flight 191 the forklift actually slipped and damaged the pylon that created a half inch misalignment.in addition to the damage to the pylon itself. It also cracked the 1 inch pin holes that keep the engine in place.American Airlines also skipped the dye penetration tests that were needed to check for stress cracks. The revised procedure required jigs to insure the pylons were aligned properly. The pylons were replaced with ones that were rated for 150% of maximum load as well as redundant shear pins. Changes were also made to have redundant hydraulics for the wing slats as well a locks to keep the slats from retracting if there was a hydraulic failure.
There's a good chance the UPS plane would have been able to recover had engine 2 not had what appears to be a compressor stall from parts of engine 1 going through it. The slats didn't retract like they did on AA191.
What ever the issue were, the fact that they used a forklift for maintenance was not the root cause of the accident as the person I replied to stated.
We do know that changes were made to increase the strength/durability of the pylon and that using a forklift is considered an acceptable way to remove the engine(according to the manufacturer) since the crash in 1979.
Could the forklift operator been clumsy and damaged the pylon during maintenance/inspection? Sure. But it could just as well been any number of other things. Maybe a mechanic had a bad day and didn't torque bolts to spec. The wing engine could have injested something that broke off turbine blades and the imbalance broke the pylon.
The point is, is that while using a forklift was not considered proper in 1979, it has been standard for decades now as the pylons were changed to allow for this.
The Neoliner Origin is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 90 percent compared to conventional diesel-powered cargo ships.
Cargo ships don't run on diesel, they run on bunker fuel. Diesel is much cleaner. Bunker fuel/heavy fuel oil is closer to tar than what most folks would think of as fuel. It's some of the dirtiest burning oil product there is. But it's cheap. It's basically the sludge that is left after the gasoline and diesel are refined out of crude oil. It has to be heated to 105C to 130C (depending on grade) in order to be able to pump it into the boilers.
Wow, what a sample size. I have three people on my block who own construction companies. They all use Ford trucks. One of my previous jobs was in an office park that had a large construction company HQ that had a fleet of hundreds of Fords trucks. My wife worked in the contracts department of one of the largest construction companies in our state. They had a fleet of ford trucks. Of the half dozen or so contractors we've had do work on our house over the years all but one drove Ford trucks.
I never said all construction companies used Fords, but most do. That's why it's outsold other pickup manufacturers in the US for decades. I've owned 3 Ford cars in my life and found them all to have issues to the point I probably won't buy one again. Plus they don't sell cars anymore and I'm don't care for trucks.
I doubt rednecks, the main users of trucks, will buy an EV truck anyway.
No, the biggest users of trucks are commercial businesses. Look at a construction site. Most of the trucks are Ford F-150's
Constructions sites generally don't have power until they are much further along, so you can't charge them on site. Additionally, insurance is considerably more. Basically an EV work truck has most of the worst use cases that people who hate EV's complain about.
Then there's the tire cost. Nails and other things usually ensure that tires almost never wear out on those vehicles. According to Google, a set of tires on a gas powered F-150 will cost $900 to $1300. A set of tires for an F-150EV is $1700 to $1900.
EV's make a lot of sense in many cases. A Ford F-150 is not one of them.
nor do f-35s or any other american vehicles
The F-35 doesn't need a kill switch. If the US decides you shouldn't be flying it they can order Lockheed to stop selling you what is needed to keep it flying. With the amount of maintenance required it will be grounded fairly quickly...
One way or another.
Home automation seemed like a great idea for years. Unfortunately when companies figured out they could make more money by requiring everything to rely on their own servers for anything to work it kinda fell to shit. Now they expect you to pay a monthly fee for your stuff to function. Then they realized they could force their customers to purchase the newest shiny by ending support for perfectly functioning hardware.
I don't recall George Jetson's flying car failing to function due to a failed OTA software update. Or Jane needing to pay extra for Rosie to be able to dust window sills. Astro didn't need a new collar because the company that made it decided it was no longer supported. All this automated shit was supposed to just work and not require a $99 per year fee for every appliance in your home.
This doesn't even take into account those companies selling your information or the security issues. How many IOT botnets have been discovered over the years? Then there's the privacy issues. Orwell had no idea how stupid the public would actually become. He thought the government would be putting the cameras up to spy on the citizens. But noooo. The citizens are actually paying for the cameras themselves. Hell, we all carry around phones that allow, who knows how many government agencies, to track everywhere we go.
Because Elon Musk bought twitter. In many folks minds this has parallels to the biblical tale of Lucifer being an angel who fell from grace to become Satan.
Ten years ago he was going to save the planet with electric cars, solar shingles, advancing battery tech, etc. as well as moving human space travel forward. Now everything he does is evil because he changed twitter and supported Trump.
The reality is somewhere in the middle.
It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. -- Woody Allen
