OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

Aside from the unavoidable Federal stuff, I gather it's much less burdensome in Florida.

Mark Twain I mean!

Some people start a company in California but incorporate in Delaware. That only helps a little.

What shocked me is that California assesses a fee of $800 per year no matter where you incorporate. Then what really shocked me is that they waive the fee the first year.

A bigger problem is kids getting bogus degrees, like film-making and sociology and journalism and comparative literature and music theory.

Even "computer science" can be useless.

I think some people are realizing that they should not borrow a fortune to attend college but be apprentices in a trade, and actually get a job.

Given a graph of usefulness vs expertise, some fields have a peak pretty soon and then drop off.

Seriously? Can you imagine a world where society doesn't educate people in such things?

I say 'educate' rather than train or skill. To understand how to do something is one thing - to understand it and form an opinion is (often) something else.

Is that unemployed figure up to date? Have you included the couple of hundred MPs that have lost their seats?

We just don't need a million of them :)

" The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a way of removing the basically useless citizens from the planet Golgafrincham. A variety of stories were formed about the doom of the planet, such as blowing up, crashing into the sun or being eaten by a mutant star goat. The ship was filled with all the middlemen of Golgafrincham, such as the telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants.

Ark Fleet ships A and C were supposed to carry the people who ruled, thought, or actually did useful work.

The ship was programmed to crash onto its designated planet, Earth. The captain remembers that he was told a good reason for this, but had forgotten it, although the reason was later revealed to be because the Ark Ship B Golgafrinchans were a 'bunch of useless idiots'.

I would add to that lists sports pundits where the sole job is to extend something like a 90 minute event to 3 hours by talking bollocks.

Most western countries have a whole lot of state-owned infra-structure, and their "debt" burden is what paid for it.

Big companies are owned by a lot of share-holders who hold their debt, and collect dividends from the company. What's the difference?

The assumption that every investment a government makes is wasteful is one that the US business lobby spends a lot of money on propagating, and John Larkin is a gullible sucker for all their propaganda.

Of course you imagine the young people are getting stupider - they don't admire you as much as you think you deserve.

In John Larkin's ever-so-well-informed opinion.

Cursitor Doom keeps on making this claim. Leftist's don't insist that everybody is equal, and they certainly don't insist that everybody gets exactly the same education - they tend to want the education system to educate everybody to the limits of their potential while acknowledging that these limits can be very different, and spread along a wide variety of possible routes.

That's not the way education works - academically bright kids get shifted into academic subjects, dextrous kids get moved into trade skills. and dim kids get into remedial education.

I wonder where Cursitor Doom thinks that this actually happens?

I wonder what makes Cursitor Doom think that? There are a lot of Chinese kids, and the bright ones do get picked out, taught English - and a phoneme based writing system which is a lot easier to use that the ideographic Chinese system - and those bright kids are doing well. Kicking our arses is an exaggerated claim. When I was working in the UK I personally knew one Chinese mechanical engineer who was very good indeed, but he got head-hunted by a firm in Calfornia.

Or so Cursitor Doom likes to imagine. In reality he he hasn't got a clue, but is emotionally attached to his fatuous conspiracy theories.

John Larkin doesn't understand them, and doesn't see the point. He had much the same problem with the chemistry part of his science degree.

John Larkin doesn't understand a lot of that either.

A trade education takes time, and tends to have some academic content. The UK and Australia re-named a lot of their trade schools as technical universities, which wasn't a good idea.

John Larkin's grasp of what is actually useful is down there with Cursitor Doom's. He's certainly no more capable of understanding what climate scientists are telling us than Cursitor Doom is.

John Larkin did get a science degree from Tulane, but he was pretty selective about the bits he paid attention to, and climate science wasn't an area where he paid any attention.

Douglas Adams. You left out the bit where residual population of Golgafrinchia was all killed off by a plague that was transferred by telephone ear-pieces, which would have been prevent if the telephone sanitisers had stayed behind.

Cursitor Doom and John Larkin aren't infallible judges of social utility. They don't know much, and a lot of what they think they know is flat-out wrong.

Not everybody is as ignorant as you are, and I probably know more about Baruch Spinoza than I know about Karl Marx.

Do try. Granting the technical expertise you exhibit here, you are likely to blow your own head off in the process.

Probably true. You do seem to have lived a remarkably pointless life.

No, it isnt. Its actually the most efficient form of creating wealth until it gets into contact with governments.

The problem is that Socialists mistake 'job creation' with 'wealth creation'

No, it's a unit of energy, approximately 3400 BTU and exactly 3.6 million joules.

I suspect most have at least one other job.

It's worse than that. Socialists don't know what wealth creation is.

And many problems are rooted in the fact that socialists measure the success of a policy in terms of how much (other peoples') money is spent on it, not in terms of what it achieves.

So nobody in the US government is at all bothered by the spending of

The rest of the figures add up :-)

But don’t forget that the whole remaining population of Golgofrincham was wiped out by a virulent plague contracted from a dirty telephone. Think of the children!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs