How much can the US federal government fine a company like Boeing? 30 trillion would be nice. Or perhaps a federal level registration fee that covers safety/quality checks and costs 50 million per plane?
Some had custom numbers that could be dialed by pressing the “mem” key followed by a number key. There would be a little slip of paper which you would write in “1: Grandma, 2: Dad work…”. Simpler times.
How long do US people typically fix their mortgage? Are there many people that will refinance their home and have to pay a higher rate or does this just happen if you move house? Can refinancing be avoided if you just move house and transfer the debt to the new property but keep the same rate? In New Zealand you can fix for 6 months, 1 year, 18 months, 2, 3, 4 or 5 years with 2/3 being most common but recently 6 months to 1 year becoming popular due to the expectation that rates will fall. The flip side to that is a lot of people on a historically low < 3% 3 year mortgage had to take a 6%-7% mortgage so a lot of money gets taken out of their pockets and the economy.
Do you think it will get as high as %50 per month or something like %25 a year and would this inflation have any effect on future US Federal liabilities?
They're not using an automated ad service of any kind they have manually put these ads in the source code of their web page. We all see the same ads.
I prefer it, these ads mean something to the people that run the site, they put some effort into putting them there and presumably purchasing the products benefits the organisation in some way.
> these ads mean something to the people that run the site
I wouldn't go that far. They mean something as in somebody was willing to spend money, so this is what they get in return. Just look at the randomness of the types of ads. I doubt there was any "qualifying" of the ads other than did the check clear.
As a New Zealander born in the 70s I very much remember Greenpeace protesting against the testing of the nuclear weapons, the snap election in 1984, the 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior and then becoming nuclear free in 1987. Nuclear power was never going to get of the ground in that environment. In NZ, being nuclear free is like the 2nd amendment in the US.
In the 1970s the BBC news programmes gave huge amounts of air time to Greenpeace and CND. Greenham Common and CND being given the most coverage.
When the only source of information is a daily newspaper, or nightly news programmes, a huge number of people can be influenced by whatever a channel like the BBC was broadcasting.
Unlike today where you can read wikipedia (!) or switch to one of a hundred other channels and simply just not watch the news.
TV set the agenda back then, and the course of nuclear sentiment for a few decades.
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How much power would such a device need to be detected above background radiation? Would a power source for it last long enough to improve the odds significantly?
It need not be active to send a message. If you build a giant diamond cube or some other gigastructure, it could last for billions (?) of years even after the builders have become extinct. You need it to be detectable at interstellar distances, but the message is simply "we were here once." Maybe you could encode your civilization's knowledge on the gigastructure itself for visitors.
