Comment Re:Serously? (Score 1) 398
You do realise that Carthage is still inhabited don't you? It was inhabited shortly after the Romans destroyed it, the "sowing the fields with salt" thing is a myth. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
For example, the states that thought they'd pay for their health care systems by increasing the taxes on cigarettes have learned that increased price per pack has resulted in a decrease in revenue as more people stop smoking. Increasing the gas taxes will cause less use and less tax revenue, so it will be harder to pay for the things the gas tax is intended to pay for.
Shocked you're modded insightful when you seem to have overlooked the obvious point that the idea is to reduce consumption, which will help attain reductions in costs of managing smoking/gas externalities. Also overall revenues will not necessarily go down, certainly in the case of gas tax. Typical Libertarian logic fail.
Dominos has an electric bike scooter doing delivery in the Netherlands that has a noise machine.
More for pedestrians than cars, to stop them walking in front of the bike because they don't hear it, this happens to me fairly often when I'm cycling. People won't even check the road but will assume that because they can't hear anything nothing is coming.
"No one has the full operating manual anymore, and the fragments are sometimes contradictory."
Haven't these guys ever RTFM'd before?
...you're allowed to cut a picket line, and they have to let you through. In some cases, the protesters refused to move, while a wage-worker who depended on the income from actually working their job wanted to pass
Those commie Union workers don't work for a wage? Just copies of Das Kapital and good will?
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