"diesel engines are known for being especially difficult to start in cold."
When I was in the Army in Korea in 1985/86 one of the duties on the duty roster was to start every vehicle in the motor pool every 4 hours and run it for half an hour to keep it warm. Nothing like getting up at 0200 on a Sunday morning to spend an hour in the motor pool.
Yes, buying. I lived in Cedar City Utah and first encountered Linux in a RedHat 2.0 beige box at a gaming store in Red Cliffs Mall in St George. Probably in 1994 or 5. Came with a couple of manuals, a boot floppy, and a CD. Had the 0.95 kernel. Getting dial-up configured was interesting since the ISP only knew about Trumpet Winsock... Then leaving it running for a few hours in the evening to update everything.
Within a week I was at the local BN buying O'Reilly books.
The center right is economic, really a difference of macroeconomic philosophy while still holding classically liberal ideas like democracy and the holding elected officials accountable. Taxing and spending with agreeable returns, such as having roads or an educated workforce.
The far right is obsessed with control and heirarchy to the point of overlapping with theocracy. And don't have any long term plans that could be described as rational. Most of them want to wait around for Judgement Day, many start it a little early.
The far left wants to tear down the current mainstream economic system and rebuild a different kind of society.
The center left, like the center right, has a variant of macroeconomic philosophy. And support democracy, classical liberalism, and capitalism. Generally a flavor capitalism that can be described as Western welfare capitalism. Frequently agrees to compromises with the center right in order to keep day to day business going. Like hammering out a budget to keep the government funded.
So, by 'far right' you mean Republicans and by 'far left' you mean Democrats?
Embryos-are-children has been the position of the far right for at least two decades now.
I never understood what it had to do with economic policy.
So now instead of having a phone number that identifies your phone, you have a username that identifies your phone. And this accomplishes what, exactly?
When you are baiting scammers, and they ask to chat with you on signal, they don't get your mobile number?
Yes, we don't want nuclear war. We also don't like wars to occur in the continental United States, which explains some of the aggressive "regime change" invasion policies. Both of these aspects explains our reaction during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The US is obviously not anti-war. But they do choose the wars they participate in, usually by being the one that initiates them.
Seemingly, especially when it involves bombing brown people.
Despite not wanting a war on their own continent there seems to be a view that Mexico is the USA's back yard and that there should be a military intervention there...
Theres also China which, despite being many of the USA's allies main trading partner, the USA is desperately trying to provoke a war with.
"The US has been tracking Chinese pre-positioning operations for well over a decade, but Wray told the security conference that they had reached "fever pitch." He said China was increasingly inserting "offensive weapons within our critical infrastructure poised to attack whenever Beijing decides the time is right." "
So they've been tracking 'prepositioning' and just leaving the 'offensive weapons' in place for Beijing to... yeah fucking right.
And so has the US in China. Big deal, you're both as bad as each other.
The United States will respond in the time and place and manner of our own choosing. And not be drawn into a war it does not want. This is pretty much warfare and geopolitics 101.
If you want to produce an exciting action film, then of course pick the more dramatic but improbable route.
There are wars the USA doesn't want?? I'm shocked. This is hardly what the experience of the last 70 years tells us. The USA has hardly ever not been at war.
Weird how this isn't considered an act of war.
And US malware threatens critical Chinese infrastructure. Just grow up.
That's not how economics work. In a supply constricted environment you'd expect the most costly assets that were feasibly priced for buyers/renters to afford to set the market rate.
If the supply constraints ease, the price will drop and eventually stabilize around a number that gives a rate of return for the investor that's competitive with similar investments of that "type." Otherwise that capital will flee to bonds or farm land or whatever. I don't know what that target is off the top of my head, but I'd guess 3 to 5%.
The economics will, long term, either encourage more housing stock or encourage people to leave. Option #2 seems to be winning currently, for a mix of good and stupid reasons.
Its been long term already and resulted in the mess we are in now. I don't think it works like that.
All goods/services are sold at the market rate. To do otherwise would distort the pricing mechanisms that normally would encourage more supply, and thereby arrive at the appropriate price for any good/service. Of course in the case of housing in these localities, the real distortion of supply was purposeful and intentional by the elected officials who legislated/ruled on local and state laws and regulations...
not *really* answering the question... Once the loan/mortgage has been paid off, the landlords costs drop significantly. Shouldn't the market rate for the rent on a fully paid off home be lower than one which was still being paid off?
So should we start sending asylum seekers to Detroit?
Do we really need millions of low skill workers that hardly speak the language
What does it say on the Statue of Liberty? Do you need those tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free for anything at all?
You seriously over-estimate the percentage of housing units that are being bought and kept off the rental market. Do you have any idea how expensive it is to buy a housing unit and not collect any income from it? There's the cost of the unit, the interest on the loan used to purchase it, the property taxes & upkeep/security costs to 'protect' your investment, all so that your other investment properties can be rented out for a bit more money?
Only a person that's never owned rental properties can believe that countless homes and apartments are being bought to be kept off the market - the finances will eat you alive.
The economics of rental properties is such that 90-100% of rent collected goes towards paying off the loan and property taxes of the property, the payoff for the landlord is in the appreciation of the property over time and some tax savings thru depreciation. If an apartment that used to rent out for $1,000/month is taken off the market, the landlord/owner still has $800-1,000 in monthly expenses for that unit that have to be paid.
Did you ever hear of a landlord reducing the rent when the loan was paid off?
We are witnessing the end of the internet.
The beauty of the internet is that you can go on there and get the opinions of regular people.
Whats happened, is that people are exposed to so many opinions of so many regular people, that they've learned that its no longer necessary to produce an opinion, only to reproduce the opinions they see online.
AI just takes this to the next level, by removing other people from the generation of the opinions that you are supposed to regurgitate in order to 'be a good person', and simulate the proper opinions that 'good people' are supposed to have.
Why should an actual person be required to produce opinions? That's dangerous and can get people into a lot of trouble.
Its far safer to just reproduce the canned opinions that you find online, and which have been properly vetted and reviewed.
AI enables this so much better...
I'm not saying that this is good for human societies....
The IBM 2250 is impressive ... if you compare it with a system selling for a tenth its price. -- D. Cohen
