Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
"Won't somebody think of the Children!"
These children are mine.They should be on my train. They’re essential girls! Their fingers polish the inside of shell metal casings. How else am I to polish the inside of a 45-millimeter shell casing? You tell me. You tell me!” – Oskar Schindler
Well obviously you first need peasants.
So you need
1, a total collapse of society,
2, followed by a revolution,
3, mass starvation,
4, a gradual rise from subsistence agriculture, through low cost manufacturing to finally being able to do the most trivial assembly steps on someone else's advanced products
This isn't the sort of thing we can organize overnight. Even step 1 is taking more than a month
>The consumer will be hit with 30% on the final price not just the cost of the goods being imported.
That's just ridiculous. With all these price rises going around and inflation heating up you would be crazy not to also add a little something extra. 'take it to margin' as they say
>11000 from that top 1% have left the UK, leading to a tax loss equivalent to 500,000 average tax payers.
[citation needed] it wasn't an average cross-section of £75K earning doctors/dentists/tube-drivers that left the country. It was Russian/indian billionaires that moved their official residence to Portugal/BVI/Narnia and these people paid no tax.
The top 1% earners might contribute 29%tax, but the top 0.0001% contribute bugger-all
>The top 10% of Americans own something like 90% of all the US stocks.
Apart from that study being a little "problematic" it was households not individuals and included the value of houses so what it really said was 10% of households in or near retirement with pensions and a house own 90% of stocks - mostly in their pension funds.
The next 50% still own something like $3Tn
So this isn't a few billionaires own all the stock so who cares - this is a lot of retirees have just had the futures cut by 25%. This is heading for a Mirror Pensioners type event for a lot of voters
Because the market has a more detailed view of tariffs than the oval office.
Even if MSFT's costs of currently tariffed HW are small, there is scope for taxes/fines/tariffs on their service business from Europe and probably bans in China.
And they can see a future where calls to pivot off US platforms for open source or local alternatives are going to get a more sympathetic hearing.
He thinks that if he is given the rights to all Ukrainian rare earths he can sell those rights for a profit. He doesn't have to care about the cost of extraction or refining - it's just a real estate deal. Same with Greenland.
If you get the land for free it's all profit
>Thankfully, the UK design does have a backstop against the PM misusing the military in that fashion.
What happens with all this cyber-drone stuff?
Is there a possibility, that with forces made up of the artisanal classes, we might not be able to rely on decent chaps putting the orders of the local squire above democracy
> what am i missing?
The president can impose tariffs on his own without any voting or oversight
The president can decide which countries/companies get an exemption without explaining why
The president thinks a trade deficit = USA losing money
The president is a moron
Yes because everyone is richer if Americans work as programmers using AWS and buy cheap minerals from China.
So long as nobody does anything stupid to fsck-up gobal trade we all win.
But soon all those silicon valley intellectuals will become subsistence farmers just about raising enough food to feed themselves. Make America Medieval Again
It's not so much that processing rare earths is too polluting for the USA but that it's not profitable
They are a minor byproduct of mining other metals, generally Nickel.
So the more nickel you mine (and the more rare-earth rich your ore) the more potential rare earths you have and the cheaper you might be able to obtain them
But then you have to make the decision to perhaps double the cost of your processing plant to extract a tiny % rare earths.
Is this worth it, based on global demand, cost of other suppliers, risk that other suppliers (cough China) could dump stock on the market, current tariffs and sanctions, future tariffs and sanctions...
And you have to do this at an existing mine that might be nearly tapped out with a few years of production left or plan to double the cost, and half the profitability, when making the business case for a new mine
>I hope you Americans are now rethinking the God given mission to impose your flavour of democracy on the rest of the world?
Now it's Canada's turn to rule. Your politicians will have to pretend to speak French and you will all play hockey.
