Ummm if that is true, why do I keep hearing Congress talk about $100+ BILLION "supplemental spending" bills? Don't those count in some way as "government spending"? If so I think that the number would be in the TRILLIONS per year.
Looks like another way for police to track you down to harass you to me. I am reall surprised that the rest of you don't see the implications here. If they can make a program that specifically tracks "sex-offenders", they can most likely (and probably already have MANY) specifically track YOU! I don't want to be tracked, at all. For the most part, I would like no one to know where I am at any given time. This is just another step into the surveillance-state as far as I am concerned.
Uh...wtf? They said it takes 100 of these things to power the one data center, and that they are planning to build an additional 38,000 acre wind farm. They also said that the individual units are 300ft tall. And just incase it got by you, they are talking about having enough "excess capacity" to make it worth the local utility's time to purchase. In my mind this seems like a good thing. Personally, I believe that free electricity and internet access are going to be necessary for us to make the jump to the next positive stage of our social development. With more and more internet media becoming saturated with little tv-style commercials and pop-ups, the future begins looking less and less promising.
I was thinking "recover and recycle the stuff". I mean really, it wasn't that cheap to build them and put them up there, I am sure that some of the stuff floating around up there is still worth quite a bit of money. Maybe if it could be done via remote control we could even save the expenses associated with sending people into space to do the job.
Heaven forbid they admit it to be what it really is: a state-mandated political/commercial/private spyware app. I am sure it references which cell towers are closest to you so that they can use it to track your physical movements too. I love it, just like the way we pay people to spy on/arrest us for not using the "right" drugs, they pay their government to track their every move. Ironic as all hell. I think we need to plan and execute "a cell-phone day of silence". An entire day when we remove the batteries from our mobile phones, in protest of all of the ways they have been inappropriately used to spy on and track people!
Actually I believe it was outlawed by a consortium of interested industries. Cotton only being one, the others were oil (or at least plastic-Dupont), and wood (ala William Randolf Hearst). As for me? I am not looking to blame anyone, just wondering why (if it worked before) we are going so slow about the idea of going back to it.
Um forgive me if I am mistaken here, but weren't Ford's first automobiles designed to run on a bio-fuel derived from hemp-oil? If I am right here, couldn't we just go back to doing that? I think doing it on the scale required to fuel this country would keep a hell of a lot of people employed!
Up here in the northwest, we have what we call "quick-mud". It is worse than quicksand in some ways, but fortunately it usually only occus in cauldrons just large enough to suck your leg in up to your crotch. Which means half of your lower half is now wet/muddy and you have most likely lost your shoe as well.
They "DON'T" tell the difference because currently 90% of all of the "Seizures" of outdoor grow-ops they are "CURRENTLY" tearing up are nothing more than patches of FERAL HEMP!!!!!!!!!!!
Or big pharma, who won't let the fed admit that it cures some forms of cancer, and is the least toxic, least addictive pain-reliever known to man. They won't say that it has medicinal value, but they are attempting to get 6 patents on medicines derived from various cannabinoids.
Almost all scientific break-throughs/developments go through a clearly observable cycle. 1. Theoretical, 2. Experimental 3. Prototypical, 4. Militaristic 5. Commercial 6. Entertainment. Granted that a very few developments skipped a step or two, but for the most part, the cycle holds true. Which makes me wonder....how long it will be until we can be watching drones "police" us on Cops????
Well I did say a culling or two. Besides I'd like a pandemic that took out about 90%. While you may be right with regard to the bounce back effect, if that were to occur after the kind of tragedy I suggest, we would all be cross-eyed and buck-toothed bumpkins within two generations. Personally I would like it if your scenerio concerning a more effective reduction of population were to occur. Unfortunately between the media keeping us scared silly, the gov keeping us largely uneducated, under-paid, and religion urging us to multiply....I don't see that happening here anytime soon.
I refuse to have any shots or other treatments until I am actually "sick". If I am a carrier, sorry dude, you might die but I doubt I will. The reason "pandemics" usually occur is due to OVER-POPULATION. Once people start figuring out that having millions and millions of little petrie-dishes concentrated tightly enough for a virus to play mutation-hop-scotch in, the better off we will be. We are biological organisms, and as such the same rules that apply to other populations of biological organisms apply to us!!!
Besides we could probably use a good culling or two. Between pandemic and war, I will choose pandemic 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. Pandemics are indiscriminate and take down rich, poor, black, brown, yellow, red, white, gay, straight, Jew, Gentile, Atheist, young and old. Wars tend to take out those fighting them and some collateral damage.,,,never those rich or privileged enough to escape them.
Flash....GORDDDDDOOOOOON! (slashdot no likem emoting via caps...maybe i can dilute the percentage of caps per sentence if i ramble on a moment or two in lower case?)....success!
Knowing what I know about wildlife in general, I seriously doubt that there is not a single sound pitch that can divert the path of flying birds. To me such an idea is inconceivable. Here in the northwest we have an issue with running into deer, elk, and other wildlife. One clever chap came up with the idea of mounting "deer-whistles" on the front of his car. The whistle emits a high-pitched sound that warns and perturbs deer and other wildlife before they get "amazed" by your head-lights. I guess my question is, due to the fact that sound still travels faster than "most" planes (commercial and most private aircraft anyway) why is it these guys can't find a "whistle" for gees and other birds? There is a call designed for drawing them in to shoot them, why can't their be a "call" to get them to migrate out of your flight path?
While it won't kill you, (as with heroin and ALCOHOL) THC withdrawal can be a very annoying headache that lasts for a few days until your brain starts leveling out your endocannabinoid levels (which drop when you smoke out on a daily basis). I am a weed legalization advocate, but having personally experienced a "drought" or two, I refuse to say that it has NO withdrawal symptoms.
I don't care whether or not driving baked impairs your ability to drive less than driving drunk. If you are driving, it is your responsibility to be sober!!! For no other reason than the fact that you are driving a vehicle capable of killing people, I expect that other drivers take their responsibilities to themselves and one another on the road as seriously as I do (whether they really do or not)....therefore I drive sober.
They already have it. It is called a Police officer. They ask you stupid unrelated questions in order to check your response, and how long it takes you to answer. The only reason they don't call it a sobriety check is that it would be an acknowledgment that they can check it, and thus eliminate the lack of a "field sobriety check" as an excuse to keep it illegal. Besides in cases where they have determined you aren't sober they usually ask to check your vehicle, (due to the fact that people who are dumb enough to drive high are also dumb enough to drive while carrying).... Possession almost always yields a higher fine than DUI, and both is like hitting the lottery for cops.
You can agree with me and yet at the same time acknowledge that Obama has become just another tool. The two concepts are mutually exclusive. Personally, I am sick of the "fear" that predominates all of our commerce and politics these days. It keeps the right things from happening and the wrong people in charge....
If you mean that it is working....just not to the benefit of the American people and the planet at large then yes...it is working perfectly. However I think that we've kind of gotten beyond the point where benefiting a tiny minority of individuals can help enough people to justify continuing our current model. I think it is time to go back to when you could actually pay your taxes in "legal tender" (ie HEMP).
Next time you hear about a large bust, try this little equation to find out how much it is really worth. Take the tonnage and multiply it by 2000 (number of pounds per ton), take the resulting figure and multiply it by 16 (the number of ounces per pound), take the resulting number of ounces and multiply it by 8 (the average quantity purchased by an end-user per transaction is 1/8th of an ounce). Then take the number of 1/8th units and divide the "estimated street value" of the seizure by it. The last time I did this, the average "cost" per eighth was $3. If the Fed bought it from Mexico at the same price they charge their first level distributors ($3 an eighth) and taxed it 100% the price to the states would be $6. If the state were then to tax it 100% the price would come to $12, add to that 50% profit for the liquor store, and state sales tax (where it applies) and you are paying about $20 an eighth. If it were grown domestically you could expect the price to drop further. In my mind $8 to $15 an eighth would be more than enough to keep everyone and his brother to forgo their basement or closet crop to go buy it at the liquor store. If you allow "licensed" producers on the market, you'd increase the average quality while keeping the price low enough to keep the rest of us from flooding the market.
Uh...Um....duh? Doesn't take a lawyer to understand a common theft when they see one. The first clue to me that it was a straight out theft was when i started hearing about exactly how much dough we are talking about. As soon as congress is informed of "how much a project will cost", the first thing that goes through their minds is "How do I "misappropriate" me some of that!" The second clue to me was when I started hearing things like "fast-tracked through Congress", "minimal over-sight for disbursment of funds", And lastly, that the dude in charge of handing it over to the banks was a guy named Neil Kashkari.....need I say more?
I have been hearing about this crap all day long from every AM station I listen to (even NPR). I do believe this is the very first time I heard about it there, without having already read about it like 2 weeks before on/. . Some hell somewhere has just frozen over......
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Ummm if that is true, why do I keep hearing Congress talk about $100+ BILLION "supplemental spending" bills? Don't those count in some way as "government spending"? If so I think that the number would be in the TRILLIONS per year.
-Oz
Looks like another way for police to track you down to harass you to me. I am reall surprised that the rest of you don't see the implications here. If they can make a program that specifically tracks "sex-offenders", they can most likely (and probably already have MANY) specifically track YOU! I don't want to be tracked, at all. For the most part, I would like no one to know where I am at any given time. This is just another step into the surveillance-state as far as I am concerned.
-Oz.
Uh...wtf? They said it takes 100 of these things to power the one data center, and that they are planning to build an additional 38,000 acre wind farm. They also said that the individual units are 300ft tall. And just incase it got by you, they are talking about having enough "excess capacity" to make it worth the local utility's time to purchase. In my mind this seems like a good thing. Personally, I believe that free electricity and internet access are going to be necessary for us to make the jump to the next positive stage of our social development. With more and more internet media becoming saturated with little tv-style commercials and pop-ups, the future begins looking less and less promising.
-Oz
I was thinking "recover and recycle the stuff". I mean really, it wasn't that cheap to build them and put them up there, I am sure that some of the stuff floating around up there is still worth quite a bit of money. Maybe if it could be done via remote control we could even save the expenses associated with sending people into space to do the job.
-Oz
Heaven forbid they admit it to be what it really is: a state-mandated political/commercial/private spyware app. I am sure it references which cell towers are closest to you so that they can use it to track your physical movements too. I love it, just like the way we pay people to spy on/arrest us for not using the "right" drugs, they pay their government to track their every move. Ironic as all hell. I think we need to plan and execute "a cell-phone day of silence". An entire day when we remove the batteries from our mobile phones, in protest of all of the ways they have been inappropriately used to spy on and track people!
-Oz
it's because everyone thinks they are weird...and they know it.
-Oz
Actually I believe it was outlawed by a consortium of interested industries. Cotton only being one, the others were oil (or at least plastic-Dupont), and wood (ala William Randolf Hearst). As for me? I am not looking to blame anyone, just wondering why (if it worked before) we are going so slow about the idea of going back to it.
-Oz
Um forgive me if I am mistaken here, but weren't Ford's first automobiles designed to run on a bio-fuel derived from hemp-oil? If I am right here, couldn't we just go back to doing that? I think doing it on the scale required to fuel this country would keep a hell of a lot of people employed!
-Oz
Up here in the northwest, we have what we call "quick-mud". It is worse than quicksand in some ways, but fortunately it usually only occus in cauldrons just large enough to suck your leg in up to your crotch. Which means half of your lower half is now wet/muddy and you have most likely lost your shoe as well.
-Oz
They "DON'T" tell the difference because currently 90% of all of the "Seizures" of outdoor grow-ops they are "CURRENTLY" tearing up are nothing more than patches of FERAL HEMP!!!!!!!!!!!
-Oz
Or big pharma, who won't let the fed admit that it cures some forms of cancer, and is the least toxic, least addictive pain-reliever known to man. They won't say that it has medicinal value, but they are attempting to get 6 patents on medicines derived from various cannabinoids.
-Oz
Almost all scientific break-throughs/developments go through a clearly observable cycle. 1. Theoretical, 2. Experimental 3. Prototypical, 4. Militaristic 5. Commercial 6. Entertainment. Granted that a very few developments skipped a step or two, but for the most part, the cycle holds true. Which makes me wonder....how long it will be until we can be watching drones "police" us on Cops????
-Oz
Well I did say a culling or two. Besides I'd like a pandemic that took out about 90%. While you may be right with regard to the bounce back effect, if that were to occur after the kind of tragedy I suggest, we would all be cross-eyed and buck-toothed bumpkins within two generations. Personally I would like it if your scenerio concerning a more effective reduction of population were to occur. Unfortunately between the media keeping us scared silly, the gov keeping us largely uneducated, under-paid, and religion urging us to multiply....I don't see that happening here anytime soon.
-Oz
I refuse to have any shots or other treatments until I am actually "sick". If I am a carrier, sorry dude, you might die but I doubt I will. The reason "pandemics" usually occur is due to OVER-POPULATION. Once people start figuring out that having millions and millions of little petrie-dishes concentrated tightly enough for a virus to play mutation-hop-scotch in, the better off we will be. We are biological organisms, and as such the same rules that apply to other populations of biological organisms apply to us!!!
Besides we could probably use a good culling or two. Between pandemic and war, I will choose pandemic 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. Pandemics are indiscriminate and take down rich, poor, black, brown, yellow, red, white, gay, straight, Jew, Gentile, Atheist, young and old. Wars tend to take out those fighting them and some collateral damage.,,,never those rich or privileged enough to escape them.
-Oz
Flash....GORDDDDDOOOOOON! (slashdot no likem emoting via caps...maybe i can dilute the percentage of caps per sentence if i ramble on a moment or two in lower case?)....success!
-Oz
Knowing what I know about wildlife in general, I seriously doubt that there is not a single sound pitch that can divert the path of flying birds. To me such an idea is inconceivable. Here in the northwest we have an issue with running into deer, elk, and other wildlife. One clever chap came up with the idea of mounting "deer-whistles" on the front of his car. The whistle emits a high-pitched sound that warns and perturbs deer and other wildlife before they get "amazed" by your head-lights. I guess my question is, due to the fact that sound still travels faster than "most" planes (commercial and most private aircraft anyway) why is it these guys can't find a "whistle" for gees and other birds? There is a call designed for drawing them in to shoot them, why can't their be a "call" to get them to migrate out of your flight path?
-Oz
funny, I was thinking the same thing. I could take it out with a .22 cal. and set the Fed back 10million? Sign me up!
-Oz
While it won't kill you, (as with heroin and ALCOHOL) THC withdrawal can be a very annoying headache that lasts for a few days until your brain starts leveling out your endocannabinoid levels (which drop when you smoke out on a daily basis). I am a weed legalization advocate, but having personally experienced a "drought" or two, I refuse to say that it has NO withdrawal symptoms.
-Oz
I don't care whether or not driving baked impairs your ability to drive less than driving drunk. If you are driving, it is your responsibility to be sober!!! For no other reason than the fact that you are driving a vehicle capable of killing people, I expect that other drivers take their responsibilities to themselves and one another on the road as seriously as I do (whether they really do or not)....therefore I drive sober.
-Oz
They already have it. It is called a Police officer. They ask you stupid unrelated questions in order to check your response, and how long it takes you to answer. The only reason they don't call it a sobriety check is that it would be an acknowledgment that they can check it, and thus eliminate the lack of a "field sobriety check" as an excuse to keep it illegal. Besides in cases where they have determined you aren't sober they usually ask to check your vehicle, (due to the fact that people who are dumb enough to drive high are also dumb enough to drive while carrying).... Possession almost always yields a higher fine than DUI, and both is like hitting the lottery for cops.
-Oz
You can agree with me and yet at the same time acknowledge that Obama has become just another tool. The two concepts are mutually exclusive. Personally, I am sick of the "fear" that predominates all of our commerce and politics these days. It keeps the right things from happening and the wrong people in charge....
-Oz
If you mean that it is working....just not to the benefit of the American people and the planet at large then yes...it is working perfectly. However I think that we've kind of gotten beyond the point where benefiting a tiny minority of individuals can help enough people to justify continuing our current model. I think it is time to go back to when you could actually pay your taxes in "legal tender" (ie HEMP).
-Oz
Next time you hear about a large bust, try this little equation to find out how much it is really worth. Take the tonnage and multiply it by 2000 (number of pounds per ton), take the resulting figure and multiply it by 16 (the number of ounces per pound), take the resulting number of ounces and multiply it by 8 (the average quantity purchased by an end-user per transaction is 1/8th of an ounce). Then take the number of 1/8th units and divide the "estimated street value" of the seizure by it. The last time I did this, the average "cost" per eighth was $3. If the Fed bought it from Mexico at the same price they charge their first level distributors ($3 an eighth) and taxed it 100% the price to the states would be $6. If the state were then to tax it 100% the price would come to $12, add to that 50% profit for the liquor store, and state sales tax (where it applies) and you are paying about $20 an eighth. If it were grown domestically you could expect the price to drop further. In my mind $8 to $15 an eighth would be more than enough to keep everyone and his brother to forgo their basement or closet crop to go buy it at the liquor store. If you allow "licensed" producers on the market, you'd increase the average quality while keeping the price low enough to keep the rest of us from flooding the market.
-Oz
Uh...Um....duh? Doesn't take a lawyer to understand a common theft when they see one. The first clue to me that it was a straight out theft was when i started hearing about exactly how much dough we are talking about. As soon as congress is informed of "how much a project will cost", the first thing that goes through their minds is "How do I "misappropriate" me some of that!" The second clue to me was when I started hearing things like "fast-tracked through Congress", "minimal over-sight for disbursment of funds", And lastly, that the dude in charge of handing it over to the banks was a guy named Neil Kashkari.....need I say more?
-Oz
I have been hearing about this crap all day long from every AM station I listen to (even NPR). I do believe this is the very first time I heard about it there, without having already read about it like 2 weeks before on /. . Some hell somewhere has just frozen over......
-Oz