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And I've stopped eating Sushi.

Me too, but who cares what we're doing?

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/06/15/shit-burger-japanese-researcher-creates-artificial-meat-from-human-feces-video/

What, that asshole is at it again?

If you want to worry about the taste and texture of synthetic meat, try this one on for size:
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/06/15/shit-burger-japanese-researcher-creates-artificial-meat-from-human-feces-video/

Fuck. Michael "1%er" Bloomberg is talking about reinterpreting what the constitution really says to match his world vision.
 
You better wake up bitches, we're living in a police state today.

Strangely, nobody brought up this novel idea so far: http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/06/15/shit-burger-japanese-researcher-creates-artificial-meat-from-human-feces-video If this hoax can be realized in future, then human race can be saved.

A simple carbon emission tax would be much better.

And "carbon offsets" too, right? Because indulgences worked so well in the past.

See, you have this total blindness in your worldview, where you think there is some ideal way of "leveling the playing field", which is really just a way to consolidate power. After all, somebody will have to be the one to decide what all the "externalities" cost - and I think I know the conclusion: it's more than any working person can possibly afford. So it all requires eliminating private property, and the same somebody controlling all the resources and distributing them as they see fit (taking a bit off the top, of course, required for all the private jets and vehicles and opulent meeting places required for the hard work of running the new command economy). Just like those altruistic folks making so many sacrifices for their vital role in keeping the European economy running so smoothly.

All you need to do is take a look around at all the "common areas" and areas preserved as "conservation easements" all over California to see how this really works out. Compare it to areas of privately owned land and you can see where the real environmental disasters occur - because people consistently take better care of their own land than anybody else's. And when nobody is responsible for it, it gets trashed pretty quickly. And all those roving merchants than come in and set up markets for a day or two and leave the trash everywhere don't even pay all the fees and taxes California says they should, because the next day they're all packed up and gone, and they couldn't afford it anyway.

If this takes off, then a tall glass of urine-derived water could wash down the Shitburger. The relative quality of food will be so high that it'll put McDonald's out of business.

...ever since Galileo observed that there were sunspots, scientists have observed the sun to be on a fairly regular 11 year cycle of maxima and minima...

Where did that "fairly regular" assertion come from?
The cycle is on average just under 11 years in duration, but is somewhat irregular. Individual cycles have varied between 9 and 14 years in duration in the couple of dozen cycles for which adequate observations are available. See http://www.infiniteunknown.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sunspot-observations.png or http://odin.physastro.mnsu.edu/~eskridge/astr102/bfly.gif for example. The variations in sunspot cycle duration do not appear to be related in any simple way to the variations in amplitude.