In the movie Chinatown (1974 staring Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson) the ex-cop, Jake Gites is told by a former cop buddy "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Part of the meaning of the statement is that bad stuff is always happening in this particular neighborhood. Other meaning mean you can't stop the wheels of injustice from grinding us all down. The bad guys are all too big, rich, powerful, dangerous and corrupting to stop.
An additional interpretation is that the big boys can come have their fun in our neighborhood, engaging in all sorts of illegal, immoral, unethical activities and the law looks the other way. Boys will be boys. Look at how criminal the people treat each other in in that neighborhood. Why care about a few more criminal acts?
Well, we all know Chinatown is fiction, right? The movie is a deliberate lie. But like Pablo Picasso said, "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
I live in Southwest Houston, the land that Starbucks forgot. The law isn't ignoring us, in fact it's downright enthusiastic about bring any and all actual and potential wrongdoers to justice. So where is the lack of legal oversight?
The injustice is in diversion and withholding of resources. In old school parlance the-powers-that-be are engaging in racketeering. Your income isn't keeping up with your expenses? Here, have a high interest loan. Sure, there are penalties, late charges hidden fees and more but, hey, you need the money.
But, I'm working more, earning less and having fewer benefit than my parents and grandparents did. There used to be legal requirements that employers had to share the productivity gains with their employees. There used to be regulations that required that public utilities like gas, water, electricity, and telephone had to provide broad service to the widest number of people possible. They also had to show measurable improvements in quality and dependability of service.
How come we have mega- corporate profits but we seem to be living worse off than before? Laws existed and were enforced that worked in the past.
Shut up, You damned communist!
If you look at a particular table on the Internet you'll find one of the most useful energy conversion charts I've ever seen, short of straightforward, general prices for energy sources and supplies like pellet heaters and stoves, and shipping containers.
Look for nepacrossroads.com Fuel Comparison Calculator for Home Heating. Cost PER Million BTU Calculations. This one is from 2015.
I've tripped over similar charts organized the same way. The chart above compares wood, heating oi, wood pellets, shelled corn, natural gas, electricity, bulk coal and coal by the bag and more.
Convert everything to 1 million Btu's and get an efficiency rating. BTU or Btu stands for British Thermal Unit. It's extraordinarily helpful in energy comparisons. Shelled corn is measured in bushels but transportation measurements of those bushels generally has to be done in short tons.
I hope to Gawd that the advent of the Internet will destroy the phony baloney denial of straight forward pricing of goods and services. Are you selling something? Why waste every body's time by making them contact you so you can do a sales pitch. Offer an actual price on your website that makes you a healthy profit. Then mention that you have excellent extra services, frequent sales, discounts, repeat customer specials, rebates for successful sales referrals etc.
An additional interpretation is that the big boys can come have their fun in our neighborhood, engaging in all sorts of illegal, immoral, unethical activities and the law looks the other way. Boys will be boys. Look at how criminal the people treat each other in in that neighborhood. Why care about a few more criminal acts?
Well, we all know Chinatown is fiction, right? The movie is a deliberate lie. But like Pablo Picasso said, "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
I live in Southwest Houston, the land that Starbucks forgot. The law isn't ignoring us, in fact it's downright enthusiastic about bring any and all actual and potential wrongdoers to justice. So where is the lack of legal oversight?
The injustice is in diversion and withholding of resources. In old school parlance the-powers-that-be are engaging in racketeering. Your income isn't keeping up with your expenses? Here, have a high interest loan. Sure, there are penalties, late charges hidden fees and more but, hey, you need the money.
But, I'm working more, earning less and having fewer benefit than my parents and grandparents did. There used to be legal requirements that employers had to share the productivity gains with their employees. There used to be regulations that required that public utilities like gas, water, electricity, and telephone had to provide broad service to the widest number of people possible. They also had to show measurable improvements in quality and dependability of service.
How come we have mega- corporate profits but we seem to be living worse off than before? Laws existed and were enforced that worked in the past.
Shut up, You damned communist!
If you look at a particular table on the Internet you'll find one of the most useful energy conversion charts I've ever seen, short of straightforward, general prices for energy sources and supplies like pellet heaters and stoves, and shipping containers.
Look for nepacrossroads.com Fuel Comparison Calculator for Home Heating. Cost PER Million BTU Calculations. This one is from 2015.
I've tripped over similar charts organized the same way. The chart above compares wood, heating oi, wood pellets, shelled corn, natural gas, electricity, bulk coal and coal by the bag and more.
Convert everything to 1 million Btu's and get an efficiency rating. BTU or Btu stands for British Thermal Unit. It's extraordinarily helpful in energy comparisons. Shelled corn is measured in bushels but transportation measurements of those bushels generally has to be done in short tons.
I hope to Gawd that the advent of the Internet will destroy the phony baloney denial of straight forward pricing of goods and services. Are you selling something? Why waste every body's time by making them contact you so you can do a sales pitch. Offer an actual price on your website that makes you a healthy profit. Then mention that you have excellent extra services, frequent sales, discounts, repeat customer specials, rebates for successful sales referrals etc.
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