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ParticipantThat’s really a red herring.
The problem isn’t an occasional listening to the advertisements, Casinos or the infrequent donut.
The real problem is the expectations for long hours, sedentary work, minimal vacation and coupled with greater demands for out of school activities to counter the stripped schools and an out of whack food system where 80% of the food in the grocery store is engineered to push our biological triggers and a subsidies system that makes the worst food for us the most affordable.
If you weren’t here at the right time, stepping off that wage slave treadmill of death isn’t easy, nor is it a sure thing.
ParticipantHow large would the savings be in just removing all the billing/insurance specialists and insurance company overhead?
Also, if we really want to fix health care, we need to change the billing model. People need to pay for it and get reimbursed the,selves from insurance. Maybe mandate net-90 on bills to people for medical so they can get paid before paying provider. Remove providers obligation to treat anyone that has stiffed them.
It would people actually see the charges for their care. IMHO, people are oblivious and hence don’t take realistic preventative care or action.
ParticipantAbsolutely, because on the morning news traffic report today, there was a four car smash blocking lnes on the 57. Another accident on the 405’southbound in th South Bay, another on the 101 heading a in the valley, an accident inbound on the 91. And an accident on the 105. Not bad for the 6:05 traffic report.
I’m assuming humans were driving
Participant[quote=moneymaker]I see for sale signs everywhere and yet “inventory is low” makes me go “huh”.[/quote]
OC is the same way, on a walk last week I saw five houses newly with for sale signs up. Couldn’t find them on the MLS, found them on the individual realtor sites listed as already in escrow. Either the five were less than three days on market or they were pocket listings.
I suspect pocket listings since the realtor is long established in the neighborhood.
ParticipantLCD/LEDs over incandescent mandate is a good example of a foisted solution without fully understanding the impacts and questionable numbers.
LEDs make great sense in long hour operating environments, i.e Stores/ warehouses that run the lights 12-24 hours/day. Less so in residential housing where the cycling of lights increases failure rates and the extremely long (hypothesized life) of the bulb isn’t beneficial.
[quote]Surprisingly to many, the true reliability and lifetime of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting systems
is generally not known. Even worse, lumen maintenance values of LED devices are widely used as a
proxy for the lifetime of an LED lighting system, which is misleading since lumen maintenance is
but one component of a luminaire’s reliability. In fact, quite often the lifetime of a well-designed and
manufactured luminaire is not determined by LED lumen depreciation. For many manufacturers
estimating the luminaire lifetime using LED lumen maintenance, results can be ascribed to
dependence on readily available numbers without developing actual luminaire data. In many cases,
neither product providers nor customers are aware of the differences, perhaps in part because the
problem has not been sufficiently explored and communicated.[/quote][quote=FlyerInHi]Let me give you an example of kookoo extremism from people who don’t want to even consider anything reasonable.
Anyone who uses airconditioning knows that efficiency is key to lower bill. There’s a huge difference between SEER-10 and SEER-13 or even higher (up to SEER-23 now)
As Clinton left office he mandated SEER-13. Bush rolled it back and the issue went to court. So we didn’t get SEER-13 until 2006 manufacture date. So most of the houses built doing the boom years still had the old stuff, manufactured before.
Lots of wasted energy and higher power bills for millions of consumers, simply because of obstruction.
http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/040116.asp
BTW, I happen to know this because I researched when I bought property.
If you run AC a lot and have high power bills, you know who to blame. AN, you have solar because you like AC. Well, do some research and see what your energy usage would be if you had SEER-18.
Anyone remember the polemic over the incandescent light bulbs. Isn’t it so quaint and anachronistic now that LED is everywhere?
Participant[quote=bearishgurl][quote=FlyerInHi]ok, not free, but cheap and not budget busting.
Mexico City’s subway fare is 25c…[/quote]One can still ride all over SF on the streetcar, cable car or bus (or a combo of the above) for $2.50 or less per day.[/quote]Mexico City also has a $5/day minimum wage. Which given California’s $10/hr minimum wage and an 8 hour work day, equates to a $4/subway far. LA’s subway fare is $1.75. Roughly 1/2 as much a Mexico City’s equivalent.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
The law of nature does say that we will run out carbon fuels sooner or later. Question is: do we want to have pollution and run out of fuel in a shorter amount of time or longer period?[/quote]
Seems like you’re flip flopping. IS it Global warming or now running out of carbon fuels?
ARe we going to look at Tesla and really figure out lifetime emission impacts or do we just want to feel good and get a carpool sticker?
I bought solar panels years ago. Great deal for me, I locked my effectively power costs at just sub-10 cents a KwH. The cost to you and society, is roughly 35 cents. That’s 35 cents per KwH, whether I use them or not, whether I produce them or not. You already paid for them.
It’s a screaming good deal considering that wholesale PEAK demand generation averages about 3 cents/KwH and tops out around 6 cents currently…
Is that the trade off you’re proposing in mass?
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=livinincali]
The bottom line is there’s a huge economic investment that has to happen to do any of this and in most cases it will hit the lower middle class and poorest the worst. A new car payment, a new gas tax, higher electricity prices all hit them harder than it would hit me or you.[/quote]
There are ways to mitigate that, if only we had the willingness to do it.
Free, or nearly free public transport? That would spur so a lot of infrastructure investment and change the face of urban planning.[/quote]
The problem for public transportation is not the cost to the users, it’s the distance, 500 meters and cost to society build and run it.
Planet wide, culture wide, it’s repetitively shown to the be the maximum distance people are willing to walk for public transportation on a regular basis.
Free is bad. We need to stop saying free. We need to stop thinking free. We need to stop thinking an all you can gorge on buffet is good, whether it’s health care, education, consumer goods or an actual buffet.
Over consumption is the problem. You don’t solve over consumption with ‘free’.
And over consumption is the problem, IMHO.
Participant[quote=temeculaguy]I have it on my list to watch. It still sits behind The Wire, Band of Brothers, Rome, Firefly, The White Queen and the BBC version of Sherlock. But since I’ve see those twice it’s close to next, right after true detective and before Game of Thrones and Outlander start again.[/quote]
No offense intended,must I thought you went to temecula to have space and quality of life to do cool,things? That kind of sounds like nightly binge watching.
ParticipantHere’s the blue print for making America great again. http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-bangladesh-ships-20160309-story.html
ParticipantI think that link and the Black Friday Mob stampedes spell out our current election.
People are that desperate and obsessed with having possessions or trips that they will do those kinds of back flips to ‘earn’ them.
ParticipantParticipantcorporations were relatively rare items during the constitution writing. What would the founding fathers think of the ubiqitiuos stature today and the carte Blanche avoidance of accountability that comes with it for the shareholders and largely the people running it.
What would they think of chemical manufactured for mass sale and distribution that have lasting detrimental effects?
What’s would they think of corps poisoning the water with chemicals you can’t see? Can’t smell? Can’t taste? That kill you?
What would they think of corporations owning food crops and using the court to put people out of business when then corporation food crop contaminates the person crop ?
ParticipantTax the trucks hauling from our ports and farms out of the state.
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