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My Modest Proposal to End Global Warming, Revitalize General Aviation, and End Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
stupid idea. long live the modern office. It depends. It would be a stupid idea if it leads to lesser productivity but lesser productivity rarely goes unnoticed. If your job is such that you can work from home without sacrificing on productivity, then getting caught in rush hour traffic while unnecessarily commuting to work would be a stupid idea instead. There would be plenty of cases where a worker would be more productive while working from home. |
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My Modest Proposal to End Global Warming, Revitalize GeneralAviation, and End Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
Jay Honeck wrote:
Just buy a golf cart... Those are a bit cold in winter around here... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA And damp around here in NW Oregon. Tony |
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My Modest Proposal to End Global Warming, Revitalize General Aviation, and End Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
On Oct 14, 9:33 am, C J Campbell
wrote: Vast numbers of automobiles with 2 or 3 or more cars per household; long commutes of single drivers; horrible freeway congestion; urban sprawl; loss of farmland and wilderness resources; the decay of cities and the takeover of large areas of our cities by lawless gangs; obesity caused by everyone eating at fast food joints; dependence on foreign oil; global warming; pollution; filth, crud, corruption; hundreds of thousands dead in traffic accidents; the closure of local airports because of expanding city growth: All of these problems can be traced to the rise of the superhighway. We built it, and everybody moved out of town in an ever-increasing spiral of flight to a chimera of utopian suburbia. The only people left in the cities were a few of the very rich who understood city life and a lot of the extremely poor and desperate. People forgot their responsibility to their fellow man because their fellow man who needed help now lived in that awful place fifty miles away. City parks were taken over by drug users and prostitutes because they were the only ones left. Schools, well, schools were simply abandoned to their fate. The only reason people really live so far from where the work is because of the freeway. They thought they would be happy out there, but demonstrably they are not. So they keep moving further away, never finding happiness, dragging the culture and amenities of the city behind them. They wanted to live in quiet farmland, but they wanted shopping like they had in the city, so they built huge shopping malls and then complained that it was too much like the city and moved even further away. They didn't like nosy people telling them how to live in the city, so they moved to neighborhoods with restrictive covenants and complained. It is madness. Much of the only land available was near small town airports, so they demanded that the airports be closed and developed into more suburbs or golf courses. The trains were shut down as freight was transferred to the new railroad of the freeways as trucks pulled entire chains of trailers behind them across country. It is time to reverse this trend! Vote no on new freeways! Vote no even for maintenance! Elect people who will dynamite the freeways! Elect incompetents who will allow the freeways to die of well-deserved neglect! Here in Washington State we have been doing that for decades, but only half-heartedly. Now is the time to finish the job! When people realize that suburbia is not the answer, they will move back to the cities where they will be happier and those who have to live and work in the hinterland and remain behind will be happier. Automobile usage will be cut by more than half, along with its attendant use of petroleum. Of course, those who still live out in the sticks will need some other way to get around. This will be the rail lines, just like in the old days, or they will fly, as God intended. New airports will spring up like flowers after a rain. Flight instructors will be busy. The little planes will no longer bother anybody because everyone will realize they are necessary. Aircraft manufacturers will finally have the incentive to innovate and produce airplanes in reasonable numbers. -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor Sounds wonderful, but if a whole lot of folks start flying the GA traffic congestion will be a lot worse than what the roads and freeways are now. Compare minimum separation for cars vs planes! |
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My Modest Proposal to End Global Warming, Revitalize GeneralAviation, and End Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
Overtime? What a bizarre concept :-0, No we don't get overtime for anything. If we work extra hours we can get comp time, if we get it approved first. We can't work more than 10 per day (no 20/2), but the 9/5/4 works out ok, until you end up just going in for 2 or 3 hours on Sunday and spending 6 (lawn is not mowed, leaves are not up, laundry is not done, oh well, another weekend shot to hell, but I did get a few minutes stick time in an L-39 JET this weekend!!!) Margy Scott wrote: Do you get the mandatory overtime pay (5 hours) for the first week where you work 45 hours in that work week or are you on salary? My boss would never let us (non-exempt) folks work that schedule...wish we had a 2-20 schedule (2 days a week, 20 hours each...work 20 straight, 8 off and then another straight 20)...would be great to have 5 day weekends Scott Margy Natalie wrote: wrote: Of course, those who still live out in the sticks will need some other way to get around. This will be the rail lines, just like in the old days, or they will fly, as God intended. New airports will spring up like flowers after a rain. Flight instructors will be busy. The little planes will no longer bother anybody because everyone will realize they are necessary. Aircraft manufacturers will finally have the incentive to innovate and produce airplanes in reasonable numbers. If by little planes you mean 4 seaters and such, then I doubt that they will ever become reliable means of private transport like the car. Even with an instrument rating it would require a high level of skill, confidence and time commitment on part of the pilot to use a little airplane regularly for commuting. Besides, no matter how many airports spring up, there still remains the problem of getting from the airport to the work place and back. If more and more employers and employees work together to find ways to work remotely from home, it would reduce automobile usage to an extent. This is a good reason for flex schedules I work a 9/5/4/ (9 hours, 5 days one week, 4 the next). If everyone did that it would reduce travel 10%. Some folks work 10/4/4 which is a really long day, but if you commute 4 hours a day (not unrealistic in this area) you save a lot of real time and traffic is reduced 20%. Margy |
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My Modest Proposal to End Global Warming, Revitalize GeneralAviation, and End Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
Anthony W wrote:
I've yet to see any proof that global warming is man made. I've seen some evidence that it's more of a solar phenomena. As for ending the dependence on imported oil, so far hydrogen powered internal combustion engines look promising but will have the same issues and propane fueled engines. For now it's petrochemical fuel and there's more in the USA than the feds will let the oil companies drill for. Tony Here's a recent scientific report on the effects of solar phenomena on the climate. http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media...pa20071880.pdf |
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My Modest Proposal to End Global Warming, Revitalize General Aviation, and End Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
On Oct 14, 9:33 am, C J Campbell wrote: All of these problems can be traced to the rise of the superhighway. We built it, and everybody moved out of town in an ever-increasing spiral of flight to a chimera of utopian suburbia. The only people left in the cities were a few of the very rich who understood city life and a lot of the extremely poor and desperate. People forgot their responsibility to their fellow man because their fellow man who needed help now lived in that awful place fifty miles away. City parks were taken over by drug users and prostitutes because they were the only ones left. Schools, well, schools were simply abandoned to their fate. Wow, all of the rpoblems of modern life blamed solely on the freeway!! A single cause responsible for every evil known to man! And only you figured it all out! You know, I'll bet the problems are a little more complex than that. |
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My Modest Proposal to End Global Warming, Revitalize GeneralAviation, and End Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
Oh...I forgot to ask if you were self employed. That would explain no
overtime pay since it is only required for employment covered in the fair labor standards act... http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whdfs23.htm Scott Margy Natalie wrote: Overtime? What a bizarre concept :-0, No we don't get overtime for anything. If we work extra hours we can get comp time, if we get it approved first. We can't work more than 10 per day (no 20/2), but the 9/5/4 works out ok, until you end up just going in for 2 or 3 hours on Sunday and spending 6 (lawn is not mowed, leaves are not up, laundry is not done, oh well, another weekend shot to hell, but I did get a few minutes stick time in an L-39 JET this weekend!!!) Margy Scott wrote: Do you get the mandatory overtime pay (5 hours) for the first week where you work 45 hours in that work week or are you on salary? My boss would never let us (non-exempt) folks work that schedule...wish we had a 2-20 schedule (2 days a week, 20 hours each...work 20 straight, 8 off and then another straight 20)...would be great to have 5 day weekends Scott Margy Natalie wrote: wrote: Of course, those who still live out in the sticks will need some other way to get around. This will be the rail lines, just like in the old days, or they will fly, as God intended. New airports will spring up like flowers after a rain. Flight instructors will be busy. The little planes will no longer bother anybody because everyone will realize they are necessary. Aircraft manufacturers will finally have the incentive to innovate and produce airplanes in reasonable numbers. If by little planes you mean 4 seaters and such, then I doubt that they will ever become reliable means of private transport like the car. Even with an instrument rating it would require a high level of skill, confidence and time commitment on part of the pilot to use a little airplane regularly for commuting. Besides, no matter how many airports spring up, there still remains the problem of getting from the airport to the work place and back. If more and more employers and employees work together to find ways to work remotely from home, it would reduce automobile usage to an extent. This is a good reason for flex schedules I work a 9/5/4/ (9 hours, 5 days one week, 4 the next). If everyone did that it would reduce travel 10%. Some folks work 10/4/4 which is a really long day, but if you commute 4 hours a day (not unrealistic in this area) you save a lot of real time and traffic is reduced 20%. Margy -- Scott http://corbenflyer.tripod.com/ Gotta Fly or Gonna Die Building RV-4 (Super Slow Build Version) |
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My Modest Proposal to End Global Warming, Revitalize General Aviation, and End Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
Scott wrote:
Oh...I forgot to ask if you were self employed. That would explain no overtime pay since it is only required for employment covered in the fair labor standards act... http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whdfs23.htm Doesn't apply to the huge number of salaried employees. Either that, or my ex-employee owes me a few million dollars. Mark "don't I wish..." Hickey Scott Margy Natalie wrote: Overtime? What a bizarre concept :-0, No we don't get overtime for anything. If we work extra hours we can get comp time, if we get it approved first. We can't work more than 10 per day (no 20/2), but the 9/5/4 works out ok, until you end up just going in for 2 or 3 hours on Sunday and spending 6 (lawn is not mowed, leaves are not up, laundry is not done, oh well, another weekend shot to hell, but I did get a few minutes stick time in an L-39 JET this weekend!!!) Margy Scott wrote: Do you get the mandatory overtime pay (5 hours) for the first week where you work 45 hours in that work week or are you on salary? My boss would never let us (non-exempt) folks work that schedule...wish we had a 2-20 schedule (2 days a week, 20 hours each...work 20 straight, 8 off and then another straight 20)...would be great to have 5 day weekends Scott Margy Natalie wrote: wrote: Of course, those who still live out in the sticks will need some other way to get around. This will be the rail lines, just like in the old days, or they will fly, as God intended. New airports will spring up like flowers after a rain. Flight instructors will be busy. The little planes will no longer bother anybody because everyone will realize they are necessary. Aircraft manufacturers will finally have the incentive to innovate and produce airplanes in reasonable numbers. If by little planes you mean 4 seaters and such, then I doubt that they will ever become reliable means of private transport like the car. Even with an instrument rating it would require a high level of skill, confidence and time commitment on part of the pilot to use a little airplane regularly for commuting. Besides, no matter how many airports spring up, there still remains the problem of getting from the airport to the work place and back. If more and more employers and employees work together to find ways to work remotely from home, it would reduce automobile usage to an extent. This is a good reason for flex schedules I work a 9/5/4/ (9 hours, 5 days one week, 4 the next). If everyone did that it would reduce travel 10%. Some folks work 10/4/4 which is a really long day, but if you commute 4 hours a day (not unrealistic in this area) you save a lot of real time and traffic is reduced 20%. Margy |
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My Modest Proposal to End Global Warming, Revitalize General Aviation, and End Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
On 2007-10-15 03:20:47 -0700, "Alex G." said:
On Oct 14, 9:33 am, C J Campbell wrote: All of these problems can be traced to the rise of the superhighway. We built it, and everybody moved out of town in an ever-increasing spiral of flight to a chimera of utopian suburbia. The only people left in the cities were a few of the very rich who understood city life and a lot of the extremely poor and desperate. People forgot their responsibility to their fellow man because their fellow man who needed help now lived in that awful place fifty miles away. City parks were taken over by drug users and prostitutes because they were the only ones left. Schools, well, schools were simply abandoned to their fate. Wow, all of the rpoblems of modern life blamed solely on the freeway!! A single cause responsible for every evil known to man! And only you figured it all out! You know, I'll bet the problems are a little more complex than that. Apparently the nature of satire is lost on you. -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor |
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