Posts by SundogUK 1236 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2012
"While the US is clearly a complete basket case, it is worth pointing out that, of the major economies, it is probably the one with the hardest geography. Of course it has major centres of populations, but it also has wide open spaces, with small towns in them. That tends to significantly reduce real competition."
All true.
"Nothing that a dose of strong regulation couldn't fix"
Really? How? Without pushing up prices for users in built up areas...
"...airports are too cheap to hire enough personnel to run security efficiently."
No, actually it's passengers who are too cheap to allow airports to run security efficiently. If you want to pay peanuts for your flight to Majorca, the airlines can't pay for all those extra security bodies.
"When you pay streamers for your products, the creatives get peanuts."
This. I have seen an in-depth analysis of what an artist gets for a single release on a variety of formats. The CD single is far better for everyone concerned but listeners have fallen for the convenience of streaming, so the artists get practically nothing.
I don't know about the US but in the UK, converting office buildings to apartments is not simple or cheap. The plumbing is laid out all wrong and there are completely different H&S regulations for example. Usually it's cheaper to just knock the building down and start again.
'physical/motorial intelligence' is simply nonsense. Emotional intelligence is a thing but in the current context is irrelevant. And saying "Secondly with intelligence being a symmetric bell curve, saying "half the world is stupider than average" is numerically making the same claim as "half the world is cleverer than average", and both are wrong." is pedantic tosspottery.
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