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Comment Re:bailouts (Score -1) 47

I run a number of companies, I am not under illusion that my companies are here forever, however I also am against government bailing out my companies should they fail. They should be then restructured or shut down, whatever. I haven't worked for someone permanently since 2000, so I don't understand this idea that there shouldn't be unemployment or emoyment should be at 100% and I am against government setting that up as well, as it means unnecessary money spent on jobs that shouldn't exist. Yes, I am against government bailing out anyone, I am against government taxing work, income of any kind, preventing businesses from making their own decisions What exactly do you think a government drone knows about running any business, mine or yours or whatever business? However they can bail it out and create amazing amounts of waste dojng it.

Comment bailouts (Score -1) 47

It is completely unnecessary to spend tax money to support any company, be it a bank, a hospital, a private rocket launcher, a farm or a software company. Of course all of this is done, all of this is wrong and all of this just breeds incompetence, corruption and graft. Governments shouldn't decide what business lives or dies, it should be exclusively done by competing in the open markets. Imagine how much money is wasted maintaining things that shouldn't even exist, money that could be spent productively, on things people actually need.... money is time measured in life hours.

Comment This only addresses constructions costs (Score 1) 78

And even then, it most certainly doesn't eliminate them.

The fact is you can't make housing more affordable when the land you are building it on isn't affordable! The price of land wont change. You might cut a bit off the top of construction. .

I actually think this would have little effect overall. People are paying to live where they can afford and prices reflect that. I don't believe they would go down much (or at all) if you make construction a bit cheaper -- people will still be willing to pay that same price for that area.

Comment Re:It was three years of my, life you? (Score 1) 62

"Is that true? I always did. There are TOS movies, TNG movies, etc."

Minutia, but here's the reasoning: .

TOS = The Original Series. Are the movies really part of that series? Many don't. It was 10 years later when the first movie came out. Hell, many don't consider TAS as TOS. They gave it it's own three-letter acronym!.

TNG = The Next Generation. You could make the argument that the movies were the continuation of the series. Hell, the first movie was filmed at the same time as the series finale. Hell, many of the TNG films were like 2-hour special TV episodes. It was always funny how Worf ended turning up off DS9 (LOOK! Another 3 letter acronym!) and near the latest Enterprise at just the right time to take part in the latest adventure.

Comment Re:People have short memories (Score 1) 67

Follow the link provided by the GP. It focused on construction jobs.

Regarding farm hands -- again, same idea. Ever hear of Cesar Chavez? He felt the same way about mass importation of unskilled labor for the migrant farmers.

Blaming the GOP is idiotic. It could have been stopped by any administration. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama (Hell, he had s supermajority in both houses!). As much as I don't like Trump, he slowed it down. He was also the only candidate back in 2016 who actually TALKED about it which likely got him elected. If he could do that, imagine what Obama could have done with his supermajority. And Biden? Undid everything Trump put in place and made it easier to walk across the border. All while telling us how "secure" it was. Then when NOBODY (not even that sides base) believed it they flipped the narrative to admitting it, but together a weak bill and then blamed the GOP for not accepting it. Awesome.

For the record, I'm a 'Never Trumper' and not a Republican. I think Trump is a psychopath with poor impulse control. I also don't think every single policy out of his administration was poison.

Comment DOT (Score -1, Offtopic) 11

DOT.... they should talk, after doing what they have done that raised the number of deaths due to commercial trucks now operating at maximum speed with completely tired drivers due to all the stuff they did since the 2019... the results were as expected, which means 'nobody could have seen it coming' in political speak. They would never admit to being complete idiots, now they want more control over other stuff. They are going to get it.

Comment Re:People have short memories (Score 2) 67

"Besides, Americans don't want to work in certain jobs [cnn.com], so those people have to work in them."

Of course Americans want to work those jobs. They have historically worked those jobs. They don't want to work them for what they are getting paid for them now with the import of mass amounts of unskilled labor.

40 years ago in CA, the entire plaster/painting industry was predominantly black. They saw their pay go for $20/hour, down to $15, per hours and eventually down to $9 per hour until they count even find work in their carrier because they were displaced by cheap imported labor. Same for construction workers. Walk in to a fast food joint in the early to mid 80s and you'd see mostly high-school students (one of them would have been me). Today, you see mostly Hispanics well over 25. There are exceptions, yes -- but it's pretty universal.

To say "Americans don't want to work in certain jobs" is very misleading. Many jobs never were meant to be careers to raise families -- and those that were ended up being priced down to becoming "never meant to raise a family" levels.

Comment Re:nice to live in a dictatorship (Score 0) 282

You don't know me, so it doesn't matter. I fly maybe 50 times a year, seriously. I drive a few cars, I do drive quite a bit in some days, and I have to 'charge' (buy gas at a pump) somewhere in the middle of a day, I have to do this fast and keep going because of business and because of many personal things I have to do. This entire thing doesn't work for me at all. I buy plane tickets without long planning, I mean I buy them and fly the next day most of the time, I purchase them on the way back (I don't know from where I will be flying back), basically this is what I consider normal life and what I consider necessities of life. There is no chance I would have time in my day to plan my day around charging my work car, which is just a mode of transportation and it has to be ready in the moment's notice at any time. I also have a car, that I drive for fun for example, it's not an electric, it's a fun car, I like it. I don't actually like electric cars, I get sick in them, I could get one when they get good but just as a curiosity.

Comment Re:nice to live in a dictatorship (Score -1) 282

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs... what improvement in air quality though?

source, billion kWh, % of total
Fossil fuels (total) 2,505 60.0%
Natural gas 1,802 43.1%
Coal 675 16.2%
Petroleum (total) 16 0.4%
Petroleum liquids 12 0.3%
Petroleum coke 5 0.1%
Other gases (Other gases includes blast furnace gas and other manufactured and waste gases derived from fossil fuels.) 11 0.3%
Nuclear 775 18.6%
Renewables (total) 894 21.4%
Wind 425 10.2%
Hydropower 240 5.7%
Solar (total) 165 3.9%
Photovoltaic 162 3.9%
Solar thermal 3 0.1%
Biomass (total) 47 1.1%
Wood 31 0.8%
Landfill gas 8 0.2%
Municipal solid waste (biogenic) 6 0.1%
Other biomass waste 2 0.1%
Geothermal 16 0.4%
Pumped storage hydropower (Pumped storage hydroelectricity generation is negative because most pumped storage electricity generation facilities use more electricity than they produce on an annual basis. Most pumped storage systems use electricity from an electric power grid for pumping water to the storage component of the system.) -6 -0.1%
Other sources (Other (utility-scale) sources includes non-biogenic municipal solid waste, batteries, hydrogen, purchased steam, sulfur, tire-derived fuel, and other miscellaneous energy sources.) 10 0.2%

and this is without a significant number of EVs on the roads. How about actually doing something useful, like building nuclear power plants and shutting down coal and oil and gas ones before attacking individual freedoms, which is obviously what this move to subsidize EVs at the expense of freedoms is?

Comment Re:nice to live in a dictatorship (Score -1, Troll) 282

You are mistaken, this is not progress, this is pure dictatorship. There is nothing progressive about Lithium Ion batteries for example. Just because green or white paint is used on some battery pack, doesn't make it any more green in a country where most electricity is produced by natural gas and coal.

Comment nice to live in a dictatorship (Score -1, Insightful) 282

if you are the dictator.
Government has legitimacy due to the silent agreement of the governed. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is itâ(TM)s natural manure.

Certainly there will be EVs, maybe I will own a few, who knows. It is not the cost of it that stops me, I like to enjoy my freedom to drive whatever I can purchase and I am not going to be slowed down by charge times. I am just curious which will be the straw that will break the back of this, very patient camel?

Comment Re:66 months (Score -1) 159

shouldn't you have to prove such accusations? All /. comments are open for everyone to see, provide proof of your accusations. The fact that I am at -1 here is the result of multiple votes by whatever moderators, who disagree with opinions, however you have to provide some sort of proof for the accusations you are throwing around.

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