You're confusing two different programs.
COOL is the Country of Origin Labeling and that is a good program. It would be good to know that food is coming in to our country from other countries. Remember all the recent fiascos with toxic Chinese toothpaste, fish and other items.
NAIS is the National Animal Identification System which would make it so that if you do not register your home, tag your individual animals and report to the government all their movements and interactions then you would be fined and could lose your right to own and raise livestock. NAIS is an infringement of our basic rights to raise our own food and an infringement on our rights to traditional farming. More over NAIS is heavily biased towards the big factory farms that get to use one Group ID and don't have to do tagging. NAIS is designed to first and formost help the meat exporters using your and my tax dollars. NAIS benefits big business and hurts small farmers and homesteaders raising their own meat. NAIS represents no benefit to the small farmers or homesteaders. NAIS also does not benefit consumers.
COOL is good. NAIS is bad. Don't confuse the two.
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/http://hollygraphicart.com/http://nonais.org/
It isn't just the money. We are losing our basic Constitutional rights. The federal government in particular but also some states are gradually chipping away at our rights and freedoms, a little bit each year. REAL ID is one example. The USDA's National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is another example which takes away our traditional rights to own, raise, transport and sell livestock.
I already did move to the woods.
No TV. No cable. No radio. No billboards. Few people.
The internet's fine - surf with plugins and Java turned off and use an ad killer on the browser. Email program kills the spam. Life is good.
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/http://hollygraphicart.com/http://nonais.org/
I love the idea of a handheld Mac, ideally one that will run not just iPhone apps but also all of my MacOSX, MacClassic and Palm applications - there are emulations for Palm on Mac. I want something that has enough storage that it can be kept synced with my PowerBook and act as a backup for my family's home folders so I need at least 8GB of storage for the five of us in addition to application space, music, etc. A 20GB device would be good to start with.
Hopefully the iPhone, in one of its soon to be released generations, will be that iPal...
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/http://hollygraphicart.com/http://nonais.org/
We have had an internal home server for since the early 1990's. I don't trust to to have our server needs fulfilled by some outside source for security reasons and the DSL pipe is really too small to waste bandwidth on this. Our internal network is orders of magnitude faster and more secure. I've never thought much of Apple's.Mac or other similar systems. Why would I ever trust them with my data when we read of almost daily security breaches, even at the departments of Homeland Security is losing people's data left and right. See this article.
"you'll get bored of it eventually and will top yourself given that nature's no longer doing the job for you. And I'll bet that would happen before your 200th birthday."
What a sad life you must have to be so bored. I'm never bored. There is so much to do. So much to learn. So much to create. If you're really bored then change. Or I suppose if you prefer you could just "top yourself" and help keep the population down.
This leads to an interesting corollary: the more creative, non-bored people will live longer and eventually make up more of the population. How wonderful! This will make life richer and more rewarding for them and the people to come. It's a vicious cycle upward!
Wow, and you can't even get broadband in most of the third world places like Vermont...
I wonder how providers feel about this infringement on their markets? In the good news, access will help the nation leap forward. Those of us out in the sticks get tremendous benefit from having the world at our finger tips without the disadvantages of having to live in an urban jungle.
An interesting comparison for this and other explanations would be are the bees being killed off in pockets like our valley. We have no cell phone reception, no radio, no TV due to the shielding of the mountains. There is no pesticide or herbicide spraying. I kept bees for 25 years but am not doing so right now so I can't provide data but it would be interesting to know if isolated areas have the colony collapse problem or not. Different types of isolations would add up to good info.
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/http://hollygraphicart.com/http://nonais.org/
Gotta love the idea of what will happen when those high altitude wind farms come falling down. They will. Airplanes do. They crash into homes and buildings. Messy. These things will be even bigger and they will fail and they will make bigger holes. I don't want them up over me, or of to the side, etc. Let's keep the windmills down on the ridge lines please.
What you people don't understand is it is damn cold up here in the north. We need solar warming to reduce our winter heating load. That in turn will cut pollution which will cut global CO2 product. It will also extend our growing season. Global warming is good. Repeat that ten times...
This has been going on for years. AOL and Comcast are big offenders of blocking. AOL blocks my mail and web from visitors. Comcast blocks my mail from people I used to be able to send to. I've never done spam or anything, they just unilaterally decide to block out addresses. They are taking the decision out of the hands of their customers who want access. That is wrong.
Actually, speaking as part of that "1% of farmers" you mention... I can do without 99.99% of the garbage put out by the economy. It's junk. It's superfluous. It's unnecessary. This $40 coupon is an example of a subsidy. What we really need is to eliminate __ALL__ the subsidies. Subsidies distort the economy. And no, I don't get any farm subsidies.
Agreed. DST is a game and not worth it. You want to get up earlier to catch the morning sun or later to catch the night, do so, but it is unnecessary for the government to mess with the clocks.
I'm more worried about global cooling than global warming.
Even the maximum 11F increase would not be a big deal
compared with an 11F decrease. Ice ages are no fun.
The long term storage has a bigger problem and that is file format longevity. Computer software makers abandon users when they abandon old formats. Data formats should be supported forever and this article points it out so well.
It has been obvious for a long time that Safari has memory leaks. I've repeatedly reported these to Apple. Restarting Safari once a week takes care of it so it isn't too bad but it is annoying.
No, no, no. You've got it all backwards. Vista isn't an iPod killer. The iPod is a Vista killer. Now 50,000,000 Windows users won't upgrade to Vista for fear of losing their tunes. Apple slipped in the knife quietly. Now they're twisting it.
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You're confusing two different programs. COOL is the Country of Origin Labeling and that is a good program. It would be good to know that food is coming in to our country from other countries. Remember all the recent fiascos with toxic Chinese toothpaste, fish and other items. NAIS is the National Animal Identification System which would make it so that if you do not register your home, tag your individual animals and report to the government all their movements and interactions then you would be fined and could lose your right to own and raise livestock. NAIS is an infringement of our basic rights to raise our own food and an infringement on our rights to traditional farming. More over NAIS is heavily biased towards the big factory farms that get to use one Group ID and don't have to do tagging. NAIS is designed to first and formost help the meat exporters using your and my tax dollars. NAIS benefits big business and hurts small farmers and homesteaders raising their own meat. NAIS represents no benefit to the small farmers or homesteaders. NAIS also does not benefit consumers. COOL is good. NAIS is bad. Don't confuse the two. Cheers -Walter Sugar Mountain Farm in the mountains of Vermont http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/ http://hollygraphicart.com/ http://nonais.org/
It isn't just the money. We are losing our basic Constitutional rights. The federal government in particular but also some states are gradually chipping away at our rights and freedoms, a little bit each year. REAL ID is one example. The USDA's National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is another example which takes away our traditional rights to own, raise, transport and sell livestock.
I already did move to the woods. No TV. No cable. No radio. No billboards. Few people. The internet's fine - surf with plugins and Java turned off and use an ad killer on the browser. Email program kills the spam. Life is good. Cheers -Walter Sugar Mountain Farm in the mountains of Vermont http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/ http://hollygraphicart.com/ http://nonais.org/
I love the idea of a handheld Mac, ideally one that will run not just iPhone apps but also all of my MacOSX, MacClassic and Palm applications - there are emulations for Palm on Mac. I want something that has enough storage that it can be kept synced with my PowerBook and act as a backup for my family's home folders so I need at least 8GB of storage for the five of us in addition to application space, music, etc. A 20GB device would be good to start with. Hopefully the iPhone, in one of its soon to be released generations, will be that iPal... Cheers -Walter Sugar Mountain Farm in the mountains of Vermont http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/ http://hollygraphicart.com/ http://nonais.org/
Don't worry, they've got a plan. Or several actually:
REAL ID - http://realnightmare.org/
NAIS - See http://nonais.org/
There is a lot more to it than the 4 'benefits' you listed
and none of them are beneficial to small farmers, consumers, etc.
Hand edited HTML/CSS is my method too. Control, quality and compatibility.
We have had an internal home server for since the early 1990's. I don't trust to to have our server needs fulfilled by some outside source for security reasons and the DSL pipe is really too small to waste bandwidth on this. Our internal network is orders of magnitude faster and more secure. I've never thought much of Apple's .Mac or other similar systems. Why would I ever trust them with my data when we read of almost daily security breaches, even at the departments of Homeland Security is losing people's data left and right. See this article.
"you'll get bored of it eventually and will top yourself given that nature's no longer doing the job for you. And I'll bet that would happen before your 200th birthday." What a sad life you must have to be so bored. I'm never bored. There is so much to do. So much to learn. So much to create. If you're really bored then change. Or I suppose if you prefer you could just "top yourself" and help keep the population down. This leads to an interesting corollary: the more creative, non-bored people will live longer and eventually make up more of the population. How wonderful! This will make life richer and more rewarding for them and the people to come. It's a vicious cycle upward!
Windows? Window??? What a Waste.
Wow, and you can't even get broadband in most of the third world places like Vermont... I wonder how providers feel about this infringement on their markets? In the good news, access will help the nation leap forward. Those of us out in the sticks get tremendous benefit from having the world at our finger tips without the disadvantages of having to live in an urban jungle.
An interesting comparison for this and other explanations would be are the bees being killed off in pockets like our valley. We have no cell phone reception, no radio, no TV due to the shielding of the mountains. There is no pesticide or herbicide spraying. I kept bees for 25 years but am not doing so right now so I can't provide data but it would be interesting to know if isolated areas have the colony collapse problem or not. Different types of isolations would add up to good info. Cheers -Walter Sugar Mountain Farm in the mountains of Vermont http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/ http://hollygraphicart.com/ http://nonais.org/
Gotta love the idea of what will happen when those high altitude wind farms come falling down. They will. Airplanes do. They crash into homes and buildings. Messy. These things will be even bigger and they will fail and they will make bigger holes. I don't want them up over me, or of to the side, etc. Let's keep the windmills down on the ridge lines please.
ho-hum. Tiger's just fine. We don't need a new OS every year or even every few years. I would much prefer to see Apple work on perfecting 10.4.
The pollution cost to vacation in space is staggering.
What you people don't understand is it is damn cold up here in the north. We need solar warming to reduce our winter heating load. That in turn will cut pollution which will cut global CO2 product. It will also extend our growing season. Global warming is good. Repeat that ten times...
This has been going on for years. AOL and Comcast are big offenders of blocking. AOL blocks my mail and web from visitors. Comcast blocks my mail from people I used to be able to send to. I've never done spam or anything, they just unilaterally decide to block out addresses. They are taking the decision out of the hands of their customers who want access. That is wrong.
Actually, speaking as part of that "1% of farmers" you mention... I can do without 99.99% of the garbage put out by the economy. It's junk. It's superfluous. It's unnecessary. This $40 coupon is an example of a subsidy. What we really need is to eliminate __ALL__ the subsidies. Subsidies distort the economy. And no, I don't get any farm subsidies.
Agreed. DST is a game and not worth it. You want to get up earlier to catch the morning sun or later to catch the night, do so, but it is unnecessary for the government to mess with the clocks.
The problem is it has nothing I want.
I'm more worried about global cooling than global warming. Even the maximum 11F increase would not be a big deal compared with an 11F decrease. Ice ages are no fun.
Why bother? They've not improved Photoshop in any significant way since version 6.
The long term storage has a bigger problem and that is file format longevity. Computer software makers abandon users when they abandon old formats. Data formats should be supported forever and this article points it out so well.
It has been obvious for a long time that Safari has memory leaks. I've repeatedly reported these to Apple. Restarting Safari once a week takes care of it so it isn't too bad but it is annoying.
So Walmart shoots itself in the foot again. Ignore them.
No, no, no. You've got it all backwards. Vista isn't an iPod killer. The iPod is a Vista killer. Now 50,000,000 Windows users won't upgrade to Vista for fear of losing their tunes. Apple slipped in the knife quietly. Now they're twisting it.