Comment Re:Pneumatic tubes for mail, Paris, Germany, Italy (Score 1) 100
It works quite well. I lived on the island for many years.
It works quite well. I lived on the island for many years.
It isn't so much the density that makes it possible, but that it is a planned community like Roosevelt Island. Disney World in Orlando has the exact same system for collecting garbage
And how is "sorting easier" when it's flying into a "central collection point" (read: steadily growing pile) at 60 mph?
I lived on Roosevelt Island for many years. The trash is sorted in the building by residents (as in all NYC apartment buildings). Recyclables are run through the vacuum system at one time of day, and garbage during another time of day. It does help with the sorting at the collection station.
Oh right. Well YOU can ride in the same system that transports the garbage. I'll stick to the human-only system.
I lived on Roosevelt Island for many years. Individuals don't put anything into the system. The building maintenance staffs do that. Residents just drop their bagged garbage down a shut and it is put into the collection system from there.
"your circle of suspects is limited to what you can measure with a standard hard ware store carpenters tape measure."
Could have been a drive-by.
Social Security is a taxpayer funded pension with wealth redistribution components. Low income households get back 27% more income than they put in while middle income get back 5% more than they put in and high income get back less than they put in.
Not true. Poorer people don't live as long as rich people so the rich draw SS benefits much longer than poorer or middle class workers. That's a fact. It is also a fact that rich retirees end up drawing a higher percentage of benefits vs the amount they contributed because of their longer lifespans. Although it is true that while drawing benefits the rich don't draw in proportion to the amount they contributed, their longer lives more than make up for the difference. The rich cost us more in SS than the poor do.
The "Contract" you gave is just propaganda. Like the Newt Gingrich "Contract With America" that got Republicans elected on tax promises a decade and a half ago, but was ignored once the propaganda got them into office.
The point of the Tea Party (it's not a party) is for Republicans to call yourselves something else, because the Republicans you put and kept in office crashed the country. You never call for cutting the military/intelligence budget down from the $TRILLION+ to something actually justifiable like $200B. You want to get government out of healthcare, but hands off your Medicare. You talk about entitlement as if people aren't entitled to things like Social Security they paid into and which don't add a penny to the deficit. You never complained while you were voting for Bush/Cheney twice, but the moment a Democrat is elected you answer the call of your corporate funders and organizers like Dick Armey and Glenn Beck to "take back" your country - that you and your fellow Republicans brought to ruin. As for the Constitution, you want to gut the 14th Amendment, ignore the 4th Amendment, add a homophobia amendment... and march with racists who really just prefer the original intent of the Constitution that protects slavery.
As for namecalling, you walk around waving and wearing teabags. You're Teabaggers.
Excellent post and worth repeating in the quote. And no, this post was NOT flamebait - it is a reasoned and rational response to an extremist anti-government radical who thinks the government should have ONLY Military and ONLY Police powers. Crazy.
But if you like statistics, here is a correlation to play with: 50 years of anti-tech green/ 25% unemployment rate.
Oooo, correlation!! But two can play! Eight years of Repuplican laissez-faire and free-market wishful thinking crap/25% unemployment and the biggest depression since the Great Depression.
And by the way, most of the green initiatives I have ever seen have pushed the boundarares of tech and advanced high-tech industries - from wind, tidal and solar energy to biofuels from algae. Just because you label green initiatives "anti-tech" doesn't mean they are.
Anti-tech green my a$$.
What a pretty graph - it must actually say something, right? Except as far as I can figure out it doesn't. "Human Development Index" plotted against "global hectares per capita"? WTF? Not only don't we know what a Human Development Index is, I challenge you to tell us what a "global hectare" is (and why it is different than a normal old area-of-measurement hectare), and why it is so significant when it is evaluated per capita per country.
Balderdash.
While the Taliban was undoubtedly a terrible organisation that harmed the nation of Afganistan...
Excuse me, but you seem to have forgotten that the Taliban was harboring and supporting Osama bin Laden who killed over 2,000 innocent civilians in this country. Bin Laden planned and executed the attack from, and with the support of, the Aghan Taliban. Yes, we DID have the right to unilaterally invade Afghanistan and make them change.
Actually, no. What you're descrbing is a limo. Livery cabs are point-to-point, but they are not called in advance like a limo service. They are usually gotten at the airport for a ride into town in a somewhat better car than a taxi (at a significant cost premium).
Ok, so he got "rooves" right. The rest is total baloney.
Oh my God, I've contributed to it. Luckily there are no guns here so I can't shoot myself.
I'm at the South Pole right now (yes, really), and I have been here for 4.5 months of winter and have another 4.5 months to go before the next flight in - and you have no concept of how unfunny that was. Of the 47 people here, two will not shut up about the F'ing Stagate that's buried here. Grrrrrr.
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