Comment Re:Therewhile ... (Score 1) 322
rail is subsidized at a 10+ times rate over planes, per passenger mile
I am assuming that's not counting the 0% tax rate on aircraft fuel, and large amounts of tax breaks for the aircraft builders ?
rail is subsidized at a 10+ times rate over planes, per passenger mile
I am assuming that's not counting the 0% tax rate on aircraft fuel, and large amounts of tax breaks for the aircraft builders ?
defend yourself.
Why Americans need Assault weapons for that escapes me.
unelected government
Source ? This is an absurd statement.
that's called 'bullshit bingo' now.
stop calling it football already. You don't play the ball with your foot.
we don't want to pay microsoft-tax
star wars is NOT SF
huge debt load
maybe you should compare the US's with those of european countries ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt
I am not from the US, so :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)
apparantly, this is some sort of feast to appease the god of materialism.
look up 'cavity wall' which has been pretty much standard in europe since the sixties; and since the eighties they where standard equiped with insulation aterial between them. I expect by 2020 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house to be the building standard in most of europe.
mind blown.
68 in the summer and 72 in the winter.
does not compute. your make your house warmer in winter than in summer ???
Lots of concrete and mortar
errr
What do you think would happen if everybody just stayed home from work
after a week : famine.
Every country should produce its own power. That's a mater of national security.
that includes oil, right? Maybe you should try closing the borders, and see what happens.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.