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Participant[quote=Hobie]NSR: Doesn’t Sanders ideas of increasing federal spending to the tune of $18MM over a decade cause you concern?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/price-tag-of-bernie-sanders-proposals-18-trillion-1442271511%5B/quote%5D
Compared to what? HRod? Jeb?
whats the real cost over the next decade of the last 8 years of political bickering, ideologue blocking and rancor? Oh wait I know, 14 years of war a bombed hospital and dead volunteer doctors? Continued festering of things like LAUSD? Disney getting a public slap down for trying to send the theme park IT jobs overseas? Volkswagen gaming the environment for years? A financial system that is basically unchanged after 8 years of continued economic crises?
Participant[quote=CA renter][quote=no_such_reality][quote=FlyerInHi]More total income per household is better than less. There’s a correlation, but marriage in of itself doesn’t guarantee that. Marriage is just social engineering for pooling of resources.[/quote]
Social engineering for the pooling of resources is the basics of society, whether an ant colony, chimpanzee group or human grouping.
Back to topic, I prefer Sanders to HRod. I prefer him to the republican candidates. interestingly Trump and Sanders are both against the trade deal. Trump is kind of the opposite of Sanders. A Jeb Sanders race would be boring and non-telling as it becomes a “safe” status quo candidate against something more radical. Trump not so much.
I also think Sanders would be interesting watching four years of his Vermontism (very similar to the scandavian outlook) running into the reality of American society at large. Many of his solutions would be great if we all acted like Vermonters towards our neighbors.[/quote]
Trump and Sanders actually share many of the same views (progressive taxation, putting American workers first, getting big money out of politics, etc.), but Trump is just more obnoxious when he talks about it. 😉
Agree with you about Vermonters. It will be interesting to see how these policies play out in the larger population.[/quote]
I agree about Trump, many of his policies are in line with sanders and those are what makes him popular. His obnoxious attitude when coupled with some other issues like immigration where nothing has been done since Reagan is also what makes him popular. The general public is largely jut fed up.
Participant[quote=Jazzman][quote=CA renter]What’s the city planning argument?[/quote]
It’s just a reference to the video posted that shows alternative means of transportation ie more walker-friendly. While any exercise is good, 20 minutes on a treadmill only burns off an apple. For exercise alone to be effective in weight management, you need to workout hard for at least 2 hours everyday.[/quote]
Actually newer studies are showing the opposite. Hard workouts are counterproductive, easy workouts are better for weight management.Ideally, you should hire a gardener to take care of the yard and a weekly housekeeper to clean the place so you can find the time to go to the gym. You also should switch to all take out meals to save time so you can drive fifteen minutes over to the new trendy workout and stop by Costco to pick up a case of coconut water. It is the path to fitness.
I think some of the more interesting thing lately are the focus on sugar and identification of it impacts on its addition to near everything that comes in a package,.
As for the swimmer, the only way to become a better swimmer is to swim.
Honestly I can’t think of a bigger warning sign that you’ve set yourself up for long term failure than needing to be in the gym more than an hour a day. Or every day. It’s.a sign the rest of your life is toxic from a sedentary job and lifestyle to too many structured activities for the kids that require car shuttling and then sitting around,
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]More total income per household is better than less. There’s a correlation, but marriage in of itself doesn’t guarantee that. Marriage is just social engineering for pooling of resources.[/quote]
Social engineering for the pooling of resources is the basics of society, whether an ant colony, chimpanzee group or human grouping.
Back to topic, I prefer Sanders to HRod. I prefer him to the republican candidates. interestingly Trump and Sanders are both against the trade deal. Trump is kind of the opposite of Sanders. A Jeb Sanders race would be boring and non-telling as it becomes a “safe” status quo candidate against something more radical. Trump not so much.
I also think Sanders would be interesting watching four years of his Vermontism (very similar to the scandavian outlook) running into the reality of American society at large. Many of his solutions would be great if we all acted like Vermonters towards our neighbors.
ParticipantRelocate to a walkable neighborhood . Walk to the grocery store. Walk to the pharmacy. Walk to the gym for lifts or the pool. Walk to work if you can..
10000-15000 steps a day.
The elliptical is nice for catching up on Netflix while you think you’re working out.
Participant[quote=paramount]VW is in this position because of excessive regulations/taxes.
Regulations are a form of taxes.[/quote]
My water and sewage bill is too high because of excessive taxes and regulations. Something tells me if I circumvent them by dropping my morning constitutional on your front step you’ll figure out the benefits.
Participant[quote=njtosd][quote=FlyerInHi]It’s sexist to say that Hilary is not likable.
I like her just fine as a politician.[/quote]Sorry, some women (and some men) are unlikable. It’s not sexist to say so. You have more sense than that, don’t you?[/quote]
I don’t like Trump, I suspect many find him unlike able. He’s brash, a blowhard, and overly simplifies.
I don’t like Carly either. To me she epitomizes everything that is wrong with corporate execs.
based on their political personas, imho, Clinton is the most likeable. Okay maybe Trump is, but he’s like that cool girl or guy you dated in college, then you realize they’re not just fun and edgy, they’re actually crazy and trouble.
Participant[quote]In California — which has the nation’s toughest emissions standards and where about 15% of Volkswagen’s affected diesel vehicles were sold — the Air Resources Board and the Department of Motor Vehicles will require owners to prove they made the fix before renewing their state registration.[/quote]
With 15% of the cars sold in California, I suspect there will be many unhappy people since CARB is forcing the fix before renewal.
VW has lost a 1/3rd of its market cap already due to this, half when you take its prior losses due to slowing China growth but I suspect the real stock hammering happens when the reports start hitting about perceptions of performance impacts from the Dino mode.
ParticipantFrom a humanitarian standpoint, we should have more legal immigration.
IMHO, we should have more of the give me your tired, your poor, the huddled masses, and less of the buy your way in with an “investment creating jobs” that are the same exploitive BS they made they’re money in their home country with.
All that said, what makes some person that came here via plane or boat and instead of going home said “f-you’ I’m staying more deserving to be allowed to stay than the people waiting desperately trying to do it on the up & up?
What makes the person who flat out sneaked in, violating the border laws with the intent of violating the laws and living here in violation of the laws, more deserving to be allowed to stay than those people waiting?
Participant[quote=spdrun]FlyerInHI — right now, the US doesn’t track who leaves the country by land, other than a few sporadic and pilot programs. Places like East Germany and Czechoslovakia did. Fuck that idea. Hard.
[/quote]Yes it is hard. The slums of Mumbai are easy. Rio too. And Caracas. Lets do easy.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]I’m looking to not grow. Cultivate what we have.[/quote]
I think the solution to immigration is pretty straight forward. Fix e-verify and then enforce employment law. When the corporate C-level starts taking 6 month vacations in club fed for turning a blind eye on their employment practices, both issues will get addressed. Enforce the law on Joe and Jane average running cash basis for maid, nanny, gardener too.
IMHO companies are leveraging the cr*p out of their U.S. Workforce to fill the gaps with their cheap off shore operations in the technology sector. They won’t whole sale move their operations because they will go out of business. I’ve seen real H1b needs but it literally 1 iin 20, if not less. The rest are run of mill workers with dozens of us people dropping out.
You need some super rare skill, no problem, the H1b comes with a 50% training tax paid to local jurisdiction UE office.
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The best synopsis to date.
September 12, 2015 at 3:46 PM in reply to: OT F-35 Program.. $1.5 Trillion. Lockheed Martin benefits ? #789334Participant[quote]$1.5 trillion
Amount it could cost to develop, build, fly and maintain all the F-35s on order for 55 years — the lives of the planes — according to Pentagon estimates cited by Bloomberg.[/Quote]55 years…
This years deficit is expect around $426 billion.
So the annual run amounts to 6.4% of this years deficit.
The total 55 year costs is equal to just the deficit that Bush transitioned to Obama. It’s 1/5 the total increase in debt since Obama took office.How’d they spend the 7 billion in the last seven years on those shovel ready jobs?
Instead of whining about the next 55 years, start asking what They did with fives times that amount in the last seven.
ParticipantIt means your installer better understand math and the celestial cycle. Basically, if you’re not home until say 5-6 PM you can dump high value energy to the grid and get offsets equal to 2-3x other time use.
[quote]Customers also have the option to select a time-of-use rate schedule, under which rates are higher during peak periods of the day and during the summer months and lower at night and during other low-usage periods. These rate schedules are usually tiered, meaning that rates vary both by time of consumption and by level of consumption. For customers on time-of-use rate schedules, net metering credits are assigned a value based on the retail cost of power in place at the time of the power generation.
As a result, solar power generated during a summer late afternoon may offset two to three times that amount of winter or nighttime power consumption. For example, under January 2014 rates, one kWh of solar power sent to the PG&E grid between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on a summer weekday would earn a credit of 28.7¢, which is the summer peak-period residential time-of-use charge for one kWh of baseline usage. During the summer months between 9 p.m. and 10 a.m., this credit would offset 2.85 kWh of power, since the baseline cost of power is just 10.1¢ per kWh during this interval.
Concerns that the net metering program was shifting costs to customers who do not have solar on their roofs led to legislation requiring a study of net metering’s costs and benefits for all ratepayers. AB 2514, enacted in 2012, directed the California Public Utilities Commission to undertake a study “to determine who benefits from, and who bears the economic burden, if any, of, the net energy metering program.”
The study was completed in October 2013 by an outside consultant, Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc.[/quote] -
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