it could possibly offer potential as parts for machines like 3D printers, aerospace and automotive components, as well as perhaps robotics and a variety of motors.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that much reduction be fairly pointless? Wouldn't you basically have to make it out of unobtainium (the high-torque parts, anyway... most of it, that is) in order to do useful work with it?
You're forgetting to factor in how much Jay Leno distorts the cars per household numbers.
That, and many vehicles are not sold to people, but to companies.
Everything from lawn mowing companies to the utility companies to rental car fleets accounts for a lot of vehicles.
It works in the short run no matter what everyone does, because food is already in the system.
It doesn't work in the long run because what you end up with is a nation that digs ditches and fills them in, doing nothing useful.
At some point, someone has to make stuff, grow food, etc. Why do all that when the government is just handing out money.
It makes us all poorer, not richer. If you hand everyone a million dollars, then a million means nothing.
A nation becomes wealthy and everyone's standard of living goes up when people are more productive, in that they produce more for a given unit of work. Actual production of useful "stuff" is required. This is partly why Greece is in such a mess. They don't make anything. (or much of anything)
Look at the Guardian link I provided. Many of your comments and questions are answered there. It looks at how the degree of austerity measures has affected the rate of recovery for various countries.
Remember, not all public servants are equal. Privatization will cut the count of "public servants", but can actually increase the cost of the service for a net loss to the economy.
Actually, once they have once and for all ceased even trying to pay back the loans, they will be running at a surplus. A bit of currency devaluation will be a boon to their significant tourist trade.
I'm not claiming it is the best possible solution, but since the IMF et. al. won't quit flogging the dead horse that is austerity, it may be the only option open to Greece.
THIS! Mod up!
Don't forget visual impairment. They may be depending on the splat looking thing next to the red thing being the send button. Move it and good luck.
What do you mean by cyclical? Do you mean the livestock/fertilizer/crop/fodder cycle?
That's the one
Just curious, since I'm not aware of either cyclical production or crop rotation being a requirement for organic farming
Yeah, that's what happens when you don't trademark something. That was the original idea. It makes the name "organic" make more sense, several senses in fact:
7.
characterized by the systematic arrangement of parts; organized; systematic:
8.
of or relating to the basic constitution or structure of a thing; constitutional; structural:
9.
developing in a manner analogous to the natural growth and evolution characteristic of living organisms; arising as a natural outgrowth.
10.
viewing or explaining something as having a growth and development analogous to that of living organisms
Actually having a cyclical system is more "organic" by senses of the word which don't mean "on the USDA approved list" or "has a scary name"
Well that may be so. But as you get older you get less patient with people wasting your time.
Let's say you're 90 years old. You're using a webmail system which does everything you need it to do. Then some manager has a brainwave and suddenly all the functions are somewhere else. How much of the 3.99 years the actuarial tables say you've got left do you want to spend dealing with that?
It's not just 90 year-olds. Take a poll of working-age users and find out how many like the MS Office Ribbon; how many people are cool with the regular UI reshuffling that takes place in Windows just to prove you're paying your upgrade fee for software that's "new"?
I was working as a developer when the news of the Therac 25 problems broke, so I remember it well. You actually have it backwards; it wasn't bad UI design at all.
The thing is mere functional testing of the user interface would not have revealed the flaw in the system. What happened is that people who used the system very day, day in and day out, became so fast at entering the machine settings the rate of UI events exceeded the ability of the custom monitor software written for the machine to respond correctly to them.
If the UI was bad from a design standpoint the fundamental system engineering flaws of the system might never have been revealed.
What specific overhead are you talking about? All Govt spending goes into the economy.
Sure, but that doesn't make it useful spending...
The government could hire 5 million people tomorrow to dig ditches, then 5 million more to fill them back in.
Lots of money would enter the economy, but no useful work would get done. Such spending makes us all poorer, not richer.
"you can't all have nice cars like the tourrerists"
Not sure what word you were aiming for there. Did you mean people who plant bombs, or ones who SHIT! randomly shout PISSARSEBUGGERBUM! expletives when they CUNT! speak?
Why didn't you slip the tax inspectors a grand to certify you as earning 9,999.99 EUR (you don't pay any tax until you earn 10k) like everyone else did?
Greece reported a nearly 2 billion euro surplus in 2014, without taking interest payments into account.
I could take a cash advance on a credit card at 28%, put it in a deposit account at 1%, and generate a surplus without taking interest payments into account.
Educated young oeople were flooding out of Greece long before the current government took over.
What, both of them?
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