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Comment Re:It's not the country's debts. (Score 1) 809

This is why banks shouldn't have been bailed out in any country. If the bankers want to take stupid risks and make loans to people with no assets or income, let them. When those foolish loans fail the banks should fail as well. When they have to pay for their own mistakes the remaining bankers will make good investments. If bankers continue to make bad investments GOTO sentence 2.

Comment Re:Foam the tents? There's another solution... (Score 1) 188

You need shelter for troops long you worry about heating/cooling and long before you worry about insulation. The tents will always be there before there is any time to give thought to insulating them. More complicated solutions will work when expanding pre-existing bases with a long time to plan and prepare. The foam will work on any base of any size in any theater- That is the big advantage.

Comment Re:Classic misunderstanding of statistics (Score 1) 188

You're forgetting about something. Those soldiers no longer involved with convoy duties can be used for other things. Say you send those truck drivers home, bring over more intel and infantry. Your 100 future martyrs get to sit around waiting for a new explosives expert to replace the one captured/killed by the additional combat troops.

Comment Re:Foam the tents? There's another solution... (Score 1) 188

Where are you going to get the earth? The foam and application equipment can be used even on small fire bases that can only be resupplied by air. You can ship a bulldozer by air, but it will have to leave to base to go dig up dirt. Big target. If the ground is soft enough to dig up easily, do you think the local who owns the land will be happy about it? The foam can be applied quickly and eaisly to already existing structures in all environments.

Comment Re:Nothing shameless (Score 1) 445

Any book with that amount of knowledge will be avalanche for checkout from the library, not in the sale bin. If someone has the self motivation, everything needed for any undergrad education is available for $1.98 in late charges at the public library. The only reason any of those books will be on the sale rack is if the library got an updated or newer copy.

Comment Re:Nothing shameless (Score 1) 445

Instead of demanding that other people "share" their wealth, why don't you go out and earn yourself a piece of that pie? Get a scanner and start selling books. Look for market inefficiencies in the areas you have significant knowledge of and find your own way to move things from people that don't want them to people that do.

Comment Re:Decent competitor? (Score 2, Insightful) 657

The government does all that. But it costs money to maintain the dies and machines they go with in the event the production needs to be restarted. Congress almost always cuts the funding to maintain the production capability 10 years or so after production stops. About 15 years or so after production stops, congress cuts the funds for the replacement equipment. Thus requiring very expensive limited run productions to keep the old fleet in service.

Comment Re:Tips... (Score 1) 519

If you provide good service, you will get good tips. If you continually get poor tips you just might be providing poor service. Just because your working hard doesn't mean your working well. Doing a bad job tends to cause more work that doing it right the first time. How about this hypothetical scenario, I go the Ruby Tuesdays in Huntsville Alabama, after sitting down my wife takes our son to the car, changes his diaper, and gets back to the table before the waiter shows up to say hi. There's a crowd of 4 waiters/waitresses "busting their ass" standing by the bar. What kind of tip do you think I should have left?

Comment Re:Tips... (Score 1) 519

If they break their back to provide me service, they will get a 15-20% tip. If they do a poor job they won't get a tip at all. If they want to make a decent living providing a service, they better provide decent service. If they provide poor service, then they are going to be poor.

Comment Re:cultures AND pressures (Score 1) 870

Having this semesters test is cheating. Having last semesters test just tells you what to think about. No half way decent professor gives the same test repeatedly. Looking at previous tests tells you things like, "this professor like esoteric differential equations". Therefore you know to brush up on all the weird diffs that can be thrown at you. No copying, but plenty of preparation.

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