Bob_Church

Yes that is true, but when workers in all these poorer countries do begin to demand better wages and the lifestyles that we all enjoy, then THEY will become the market - not us. I always said that America's time as the world economic leader is coming to an end. 330M people compared to 2.5B for a market. We have given them everything that they need to replicate everything that we do, now we are complaining that we gave it all away. It was only a matter of time anyway. The USA will eventually become 'just another market' in a global market. Hope you got your while it was good. They have to have someone to exploit when Darfur becomes livable. The US will be so desperate for jobs by then that we'll welcome the sweatshops while intellectuals in Darfur write about how we're being helped.

I have to imagine they're using the miles and miles of test track we have all over the country. They don't even need to put a person in them, just add extra fuel capacity and put about 100 of them out there only taking breaks to refuel. That's a good way to test for endurance but I don't think that's the problem. You obviously have not watched an adequate quantity of Myth Busters. I'm picturing an elaborate course of crosswalks, trash bags blowing around, obstacles rising and falling, feral pigs and even a quantity of live drivers in crash-up derby cars. Feral pigs sounds more like Top Gear. And if you know about what I referred, then you probably are dreading the day that a self-driving car actually happens. At the airport where I jump and I'm a member of the boosters (we lease it from the county for a dollar a year and take care of it ourselves) there are lots of events, some of the have been going on for years. But the one that I don't even like to think about is the weekend that the Scouts spend camping there. Lately the wild pigs keep digging up the area beside he runway. Right where they'll be camping.

Here's something that still hasn't changed about North Korea. Scroll down to the third photo. It's of the guard, in case something hasn't loaded and that number is wrong. Someone smuggle in a sandwich for that poor guy. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-korea-imposed-strict-rules-for-journalists-at-nuclear-demolition-show/ I bet Kim could roast and eat six of this guy for lunch.

Americans are more mentally defective than other Western cultures? Cause I am pretty sure people outside of the US suffer from mental health problems. Didn't Australia greatly reduce the number of guns available? That's a real action, it changes the situation and makes it harder for someone to get a gun when the do have mental health problems or whatever that causes them to snap. But that's very different from just passing more laws basically saying "don't do that" and "don't let him have one." In the US we've had those laws for decades but, and this seems to be to some peoples' surprise, a lot of people don't follow them. If they did follow the laws the gun ones wouldn't be necessary since it's already illegal to take a gun to school and shoot people. We're never going to change anything until we move past coming up with more futile laws that either have no affect or are completely unenforceable.

If someone snaps and there is a gun they will pick it up and use it. This discussion seemed to be mostly about school shooting and I've posted what I think has caused the rash of them, along with increase in teen suicides and other problems. But it would involve limitations on something that too many people don't want to see limited, so we'll keep waiting for those magic laws.

Okay, so guns are real bad and scary. Let's make them as illegal and unavailable as cocaine and heroin. While we're at it, let's ban alcohol. I'm a lot more concerned about being killed by a drunk driver than by a 'crazed gunman.' Since we're on a roll, I submit that anyone who supports 'reasonable' restrictions on firearms put their money where their mouth is and have their security limited to nonlethal means. People will keep dying because we keep waiting for these magical "gun laws" which, never having helped in the past, are going to save us somehow. We'll never look for the real problems, just blame it on something, anything, that we can say we don't have. I used to have to deal with teachers like that. "I heard that if we had a printer server that might fix the problem." I then patiently and in detail explain why a printer server has nothing to do with the problem and you can't use one in this particular situation anyway only to hear "so you're saying that we don't have a printer server!" I knew that was the problem" All this to keep from either removing the ink cartridge and paper from his inkjet printer before leaving for summer break to avoid dried out ink and bent paper when he got back. I never heard the end of our desperate need for a printer server. So anyway, let the slaughter continue while we rail for things that wouldn't make the slightest difference anyway.

I'm trying to think of a response that wouldn't have the People's Justice League in my yard and vandalizing my house. Oh, The PJL, no, that's not a joke. https://peoplesjusticeleague.com

It's something that builds up.

It always amazes me to see clips out of North Korea whether they're blowing up tunnels or using nukes to blow up a mountain, and to see how beautiful the country is.

No trade with China??? What do you think will Ivanka Trump have to say on that? She will be forced to look for other *cheap countries* to produce her high class articles. And she's not the only one ... Some day, like West Virginia and pretty much everywhere else that big corporations have screwed over, which is basically every where else at some point in time, the people of China and India will have had enough and tell them they won't be slaves any longer. Which is just another part of the cycle. The corporations have Darfur right where they want them. They'll ride in on their white horses, heroes saving the day, and paying less than a dollar for that same amount of time in a sweatshop.

You just don't get women. At this point you gently ask her if she's having her period and remind her that she always gets this way that time of the month.

Times when you actually wish Jehovah's Witnesses would knock on the door.

"You obviously have not watched an adequate quantity of Myth Busters. I'm picturing an elaborate course of crosswalks, trash bags blowing around, obstacles rising and falling, feral pigs and even a quantity of live drivers in crash-up derby cars. " I admit I don't watch Mythbusters, but I'd pay to watch this.

I think this could make for a great season 3 of HBO's Westworld. Anything would have to be better than season 2.

"We get it - you have an massive hate for all those "left coast liberals" and resent anyone that makes the decision to do anything different than you think they should. This is clear in terms of how much you complain about your family that is living in the bay area and your swipes at "over inflated coastal wages". Issue is that the wages are inflated in any city over living in smaller towns. As a manager in Grand Forks ND you will not get the same money as in Denver - thats just a function of the size of the city driving the wages " But isn't that part of the problem? Where I live, Southeast Ohio, my pay was low compared to a lot of places but my cost of living is even lower. So it all works out, and quite well. Except for automobiles and skydiving gear. I get huge breaks on buying a house and just about everything else but the prices on cars and rigs don't change because of where you live. I bought a nice house with a little land for just under three years of my salary, but a new Subaru would cost me a year's pay.

Why was this thread moved to Speakers Corner? I'm trying to post to the appropriate forums, something I've been bad about in the past, but this really seemed like Bonfire material. It's ok, I just wonder why so I can try to figure it out next time.

I'm getting whiplash here. It's ok to enslave Chinese peasants and destroy the Earth to give us cheaper electronics then anyone who doesn't run out and buy a new EV just doesn't care.

I have to imagine they're using the miles and miles of test track we have all over the country. They don't even need to put a person in them, just add extra fuel capacity and put about 100 of them out there only taking breaks to refuel. That's a good way to test for endurance but I don't think that's the problem.

Sigh. Computers were fun while they lasted. The United States do not have the bargaining power over China that you seem to think they have. All we have to do is quit buying stuff from them. That would sure teach them a lesson! Unfortunately it's not up to the consumer anymore. People complain about Walmart selling stuff from China but it's not like anyone else is selling stuff that isn't. How much are we willing to put up with so that well off people can buy a computer or smart phone at ridiculously low prices? Even with the suicides at Fox in China and the pictures of people sleeping under their workstations we aren't willing to pay reasonable prices. We buy cheap toys, subsidized by the misery of people with no power. Then we spend ten times as much on more and more security forces to keep us safe from those people when they get so desperate that they lash out.

The car was travelling at 43 mph. According to this page (using its default deceleration rate) the car could have slowed to 17 mph which would have probably been survivable. Rubbish for her but they should be able to develop the software to make this scenario survivable. I think this shows that the car was still able, even with the shortcomings, to do as well or better than a human driver. I don't think a person would have been able to see the woman and brake fast enough to have changed the outcome considering the lighting at the scene and the normal assumptions of a driver that someone would not walk directly in front of a moving car. There's serious talk, they may have even done it, about banning the cars from any public roads until they can be proven safe. The idea was to build simulations but I have to wonder if that's even possible. Can the levels of complexity in driving be created? It still seems like the best idea is to test them with a driver ready to take over. I know, it's not fool proof, obviously, and the problem is that people will demand so much more than they're already putting up with. I just with they'd hurry up. I want a car that wakes me up when we get there.

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Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in this Friday. It's hard to imagine many people who would have nearly as much trouble with prison as this piece of shit.

I think that we are getting there . . . . . Around me you can get a Fiat EV for $69 a month, 3 year lease. They are lousy little cars, but if your goal is to get to work really, really cheaply - they are a good solution. I'm sure it works out to more than that. That is creative pricing.At your price it works out to less than 2,500.00 for three years. With knowing Fiat that may well be what it is worth, but not what you will get it for before any subsidies or rebates. Considering that traditional Fiats were my brother's favorite cars I can't imagine what keeping a new type, the EV, running. My brother was a mechanic. He hated Mazdas and Subarus and loved Fiats because they paid the rent.

Yeah well, this is all on Kim Jong Un and his stooges. Getting all snippy... Ever think of the possibility that Trump weaseled the three Korean American prisoners out of North Korea? That's a slap to KJU's face. Hell, Trump even trolled KJU in this official letter. I think there's a real possibility that KJU was hoping Trump would see that it was bullshit but then be dumb enough to turn him down. We'd never hear the end of the time the President was approached for a meeting to end hostilities with North Korea but turned it down.

My guess would be in the 80's, when the 'higher' performance 7-cells were the norm. Ravens, Cruiselites, Comets, Pegasus', those sorts of canopies. When you could skydive and base jump with the same gear. I kind of liken that era to the muscle car era of the 60's and 70's. They didn't go as fast or handle as well as what you can get today, but they were badass and we had a lot of fun with them. What are the smaller, very high performance canopies being jumped today like for distance? My Cruiselite would get me back from anywhere and I often suspect that my current canopy, a 210 Hornet, is just a knockoff of the Cruiselite but built with ZP. I love being able to fly around and check places out under canopy even after opening at normal 2k. When Chesapeake was open and the winds out of the East I'd open a little high, maybe 3k, over the airport/dz in Chesapeake Oh, fly across the river to Huntington Wv, which is beautiful from the sky, then back.