"In his theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of information in the empty space between two masses and its surroundings. He does not consider gravity as fundamental, but as an emergent phenomenon that arises from a deeper microscropic reality."
I've spent years studying the deeper microscopic reality of Julia Robert's vagina, and am not any closer to it than when I started (Pretty Woman)
That seems to me to summarize the true suck of it, seeing as the products of the "peer review process" are what we later pass off as "knowledge". When the fallacy comes to an end, it puts the same false fact/ dead fish stink on all "science" in the mind of the public. It seems clear to me though that you are part of some group whose worry for industry job-security is virtually nil. In the job market I work in politics is the rule and your merits be damned if you aren't kissing the right ass!
"Hemp is only used in countries which have limited land area, so they use crop rotation with hemp"
Was this meant as an argument against or for hemp? I can't see how it could be considered a legitimate argument against it, as most crops not grown on trees or vines have a limited duration of the year in which they can be grown. Being able to work yet another cash-crop into your rotation would be nothing but good news to a person making their dough in agriculture.
Eucalyptus may be as cheap (or cheaper "in some places") as hemp, but in truth it has many disadvantages by comparison. A. Hemp seed is high in protein and is also a viable source of Omega-3 fatty acids, B. Hemp oil can (and had until Prohibition stamped out all hempinol fueling stations...)yield an ethanol-based fuel suitable for automobiles, C. Hemp grows much faster than eucalyptus in far more varied environments than are suitable for Eucalyptus trees. I could go on, but I will spare you the deluge of uses Hemp can be put to where Eucalyptus cannot be used as an analogue...Google it sometime.
Actually the reason we won't go to hemp oil is because we are having too much fun imprisoning one another over marijuana cultivation/use. As soon as that game pisses enough people off, then we will be open to revoking our status as the "Only industrialized nation not growing hemp". The reason we cannot legalize hemp (and end middle-eastern rule over us) is because 90% of all of the "outdoor grow-ops" we tear up every year (under the guise of "marijuana eradication") are actually patches of untended "feral hemp". If industrial hemp were legal for farming, we would have to call a spade a spade, and redirect the billions we piss away every year weeding our fields and forests of it.
Unfortunately, those running the governments of this planet by and large believe in the axiom "Give me control over the air-supply of the planet and I could care less about what laws you write." They do not like "decentralized" sources of energy because then they can not extort the public for every last red cent for electricity. Between their own avarice and the greed of power companies, we will continue to live in a world where the sources that provide electricity are constantly under threat of attack, or lack of availability. Personally, I am awaiting the end of oil and/or coal with glee!.
"My ex-wife is tarded, now she's a pilot"
Apparently these guys have never seen idiocracy. If they had, they might have come to the conclusion that maybe because these hominids were smarter, they made more conscientious decisions concerning the carrying-capacity of their environs. As such, they would most likely have had fewer children, and been monogamous, while their less intelligent cousins were eating or screwing anything that didn't run fast enough to evade capture (the same way modern hominids act when they drink too much). Either that or they mastered space travel about 7000 years ago and bailed this dumb-assed planet
As much as I hate that book, it clearly demonstrated what these modern-day book burners really want. They want to be able to change the content of books and news stories without your knowledge or approval. I know that sounds "conspiratorial", and "paranoid", but keep in mind the recent debacle where Kindles were remotely wiped of their "purchased" copies of 1984 without the knowledge or consent of their respective owners. I considered that event to be a preview of what these assholes have in mind for the future of the written word.
As a kid, I "slummed" an entire summer with homeless fisherman on a local pier. For the most part I learned how "having" was not a replacement for the ability to orient oneself with one's environment. I learned how to make a bait-catcher rig, spot and make my own bait, keep my bait alive, and make enough money on the fish I caught to fish the next day. I also learned that if you want to fish with bait, you have to make your own bait. These were all life-lessons I have never read in a book, and have since proved invaluable.
It's sometimes shocking to me how much of life is lost via the conveniences of modern technology, not to mention the loss of character that results from lack of experience.
Honestly I am against both. I figure if we are too weak to survive without direct technological intervention, (such as "nanites") we are most likely too weak to survive at all. As for the GPS-tracking, I think anything as sophisticated as tiny robots that float about your body keeping you healthy, would most likely be trackable via some means or another. That being said, if they are trackable, "you" are trackable.
If the choice was between keeping my natural microbial defenses and dying by 35, or living to 135 with GPS-trackable nanites, I'd keep what I have and die 100% biological.
Given the vast disparity between the ill-effects of using marijuana, and the ill-effects induced by being incarcerated for mere "possession" of it, I'd have to put the rationalization of this country's marijuana laws far above most of what chase considers more "acceptable" use of it's charitable contributions.
For a moment, I was actually excited enough about this leap in netbook technology to start considering how I would load Battlefield 2, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl without an optical drive. Then I saw how much it costs! If someone is so in love with the idea of a keyboard bigger than their Blackberry\s, but much smaller than their laptops, can live without an optical drive of any kind, and has no problem giving up the average 2 inches vertical, and 3.5 inches viewing space just to own one of these, I wish I knew them personally so I could insult their intelligence directly! IMHO, netbooks provide no advantage that would justify spending $799 on one.
Unless you are obscenely rich and famous....then you can easily shake it off as having been a publicity stunt. Remember the mantra "no news is bad news".
I consider it a symptom of over-population. For lack of desire to compete in such unfavorable climates, an organism immediately seeks ways to thin the competition. In the case of America, we've gotten to the point of constantly seeking new and increasingly frivolous/ oppressive reasons to imprison one another. Take for example Obamacare. If passed in it's current form, we'll be able to imprison one another for not buying health insurance!
I am sure that despite all of their attempts to rid the internet of all human activity, Google.com will still come up, even if all or your search queries yield 0 results.
Having caught octopi of various sizes on plastic baits, I can tell you that they are adept and voracious hunters! Slipping from one tank to another in search of forage does not surprise me in the least (however it would have been really cool to watch it happening!)
Waht seems to be going on right now is that we are breaking into two distinct groups of people, those who want to do something about how we treat the planet, and those who do not. The among the one's who do want to do something about it, there are those who want to tax westernized nations until their economies match the pace of the rest of the "developing" (ie 3rd world economies) world. Unfortunately they are compelled by greed for the power to flip the off-switch on the general public, while they and their friends enjoy the utmost comfort, and opulence our modern society can provide. They hate hard science because it doesn't scare the public enough, so they fudge the numbers the scientists give them.
Then there are those who make their opulence and comfort from doing things the way we have been doing them since the beginning of the industrial revolution. They have no desire to change (except to make more money for the same or less), and see no reason they should be forced to.. They see no wrong in drilling every oil deposit, falling every tree, raping the bounty of the seas, and building on anything flat enough to support a human structure. they think they can do this in perpetuity without ill effect, and hate hard science because it tells them that they can't.
Then there is the general public, left without the knowledge of science, they are taught to hate science because they don't understand it, and are being lied to by people whose interests conflict with the data given.
I can also foresee mental issues arising for body-builders taking this substance. As they have lower fat percentages (as low as 3% in some cases) their brains would most likely starve in some way if muscle could no longer be converted to fat.
If anything I'd expect gym attendance to increase dramatically. You can pop all the pills you want but the body is a fat-hording machine. If you aren't doing "something" to burn extra calories, they are most likely going to congregate for a consolidation meeting at your ass!
Hey numb-skull, the same techniques and technologies they are using to oppress their people will soon be used to oppress you. Why do you think your govt has made over 8 MILLION requests to get your private GPS location data from your cell phone? Remember cash-for-clunkers? Yeah, ever single one of those brand new cars has GPS hardware (and the ability to shut off your car via remote control). None of the American people wanted to give them the ability to do what they are doing (which is actually quite illegal) but our "representatives" have created enough loop-holes to make it (and more)possible. There, now do you understand WTF I was saying?
With the way our administration is attempting to force their healthcare bill through, I think it's becoming obvious how close we are getting to having the same thing here. Our Congress entirely ignored their constituencies, and I doubt the Senate will do much better.
Sad thing is that some still call me a paranoid conspiracy nut when I tell them that's the reason we had cash for clunkers. Note that they simply destroyed the vehicles they bought from us. If I were in the same position, I would have hired a few thousand laid-off autoworkers to part out the cars and digitize the inventory. I am certain that over the next 3 years the program would have paid for itself many times over! But no, we didn't do that, Instead they filled the motors with liquid glass, flattened them, and shipped them off to a Chinese landfill. Why? Funny thing is, every single vehicle they sold us in return all have GPS capable hardware as standard parts.
Kind of hard to run from the cops when they can just shut your motor down by remote control.
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"In his theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of information in the empty space between two masses and its surroundings. He does not consider gravity as fundamental, but as an emergent phenomenon that arises from a deeper microscropic reality."
I've spent years studying the deeper microscopic reality of Julia Robert's vagina, and am not any closer to it than when I started (Pretty Woman)
-Oz
That seems to me to summarize the true suck of it, seeing as the products of the "peer review process" are what we later pass off as "knowledge". When the fallacy comes to an end, it puts the same false fact/ dead fish stink on all "science" in the mind of the public. It seems clear to me though that you are part of some group whose worry for industry job-security is virtually nil. In the job market I work in politics is the rule and your merits be damned if you aren't kissing the right ass!
-Oz
Was this meant as an argument against or for hemp? I can't see how it could be considered a legitimate argument against it, as most crops not grown on trees or vines have a limited duration of the year in which they can be grown. Being able to work yet another cash-crop into your rotation would be nothing but good news to a person making their dough in agriculture.
Eucalyptus may be as cheap (or cheaper "in some places") as hemp, but in truth it has many disadvantages by comparison. A. Hemp seed is high in protein and is also a viable source of Omega-3 fatty acids, B. Hemp oil can (and had until Prohibition stamped out all hempinol fueling stations...)yield an ethanol-based fuel suitable for automobiles, C. Hemp grows much faster than eucalyptus in far more varied environments than are suitable for Eucalyptus trees. I could go on, but I will spare you the deluge of uses Hemp can be put to where Eucalyptus cannot be used as an analogue...Google it sometime.
-Oz
Actually the reason we won't go to hemp oil is because we are having too much fun imprisoning one another over marijuana cultivation/use. As soon as that game pisses enough people off, then we will be open to revoking our status as the "Only industrialized nation not growing hemp". The reason we cannot legalize hemp (and end middle-eastern rule over us) is because 90% of all of the "outdoor grow-ops" we tear up every year (under the guise of "marijuana eradication") are actually patches of untended "feral hemp". If industrial hemp were legal for farming, we would have to call a spade a spade, and redirect the billions we piss away every year weeding our fields and forests of it.
-Oz
Unfortunately, those running the governments of this planet by and large believe in the axiom "Give me control over the air-supply of the planet and I could care less about what laws you write." They do not like "decentralized" sources of energy because then they can not extort the public for every last red cent for electricity. Between their own avarice and the greed of power companies, we will continue to live in a world where the sources that provide electricity are constantly under threat of attack, or lack of availability. Personally, I am awaiting the end of oil and /or coal with glee!.
-Oz
"My ex-wife is tarded, now she's a pilot"
Apparently these guys have never seen idiocracy. If they had, they might have come to the conclusion that maybe because these hominids were smarter, they made more conscientious decisions concerning the carrying-capacity of their environs. As such, they would most likely have had fewer children, and been monogamous, while their less intelligent cousins were eating or screwing anything that didn't run fast enough to evade capture (the same way modern hominids act when they drink too much). Either that or they mastered space travel about 7000 years ago and bailed this dumb-assed planet
-Oz.
As much as I hate that book, it clearly demonstrated what these modern-day book burners really want. They want to be able to change the content of books and news stories without your knowledge or approval. I know that sounds "conspiratorial", and "paranoid", but keep in mind the recent debacle where Kindles were remotely wiped of their "purchased" copies of 1984 without the knowledge or consent of their respective owners. I considered that event to be a preview of what these assholes have in mind for the future of the written word.
-Oz
As a kid, I "slummed" an entire summer with homeless fisherman on a local pier. For the most part I learned how "having" was not a replacement for the ability to orient oneself with one's environment. I learned how to make a bait-catcher rig, spot and make my own bait, keep my bait alive, and make enough money on the fish I caught to fish the next day. I also learned that if you want to fish with bait, you have to make your own bait. These were all life-lessons I have never read in a book, and have since proved invaluable.
It's sometimes shocking to me how much of life is lost via the conveniences of modern technology, not to mention the loss of character that results from lack of experience.
-Oz
Honestly I am against both. I figure if we are too weak to survive without direct technological intervention, (such as "nanites") we are most likely too weak to survive at all. As for the GPS-tracking, I think anything as sophisticated as tiny robots that float about your body keeping you healthy, would most likely be trackable via some means or another. That being said, if they are trackable, "you" are trackable.
-Oz
If the choice was between keeping my natural microbial defenses and dying by 35, or living to 135 with GPS-trackable nanites, I'd keep what I have and die 100% biological.
-Oz
I wonder if they will try to get money from me for having been ordained as a Discordian Pope?
-Oz
Given the vast disparity between the ill-effects of using marijuana, and the ill-effects induced by being incarcerated for mere "possession" of it, I'd have to put the rationalization of this country's marijuana laws far above most of what chase considers more "acceptable" use of it's charitable contributions.
-Oz
For a moment, I was actually excited enough about this leap in netbook technology to start considering how I would load Battlefield 2, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl without an optical drive. Then I saw how much it costs! If someone is so in love with the idea of a keyboard bigger than their Blackberry\s, but much smaller than their laptops, can live without an optical drive of any kind, and has no problem giving up the average 2 inches vertical, and 3.5 inches viewing space just to own one of these, I wish I knew them personally so I could insult their intelligence directly! IMHO, netbooks provide no advantage that would justify spending $799 on one.
-Oz
Unless you are obscenely rich and famous....then you can easily shake it off as having been a publicity stunt. Remember the mantra "no news is bad news".
-Oz
I consider it a symptom of over-population. For lack of desire to compete in such unfavorable climates, an organism immediately seeks ways to thin the competition. In the case of America, we've gotten to the point of constantly seeking new and increasingly frivolous/ oppressive reasons to imprison one another. Take for example Obamacare. If passed in it's current form, we'll be able to imprison one another for not buying health insurance!
-Oz
I am sure that despite all of their attempts to rid the internet of all human activity, Google.com will still come up, even if all or your search queries yield 0 results.
-Oz
Having caught octopi of various sizes on plastic baits, I can tell you that they are adept and voracious hunters! Slipping from one tank to another in search of forage does not surprise me in the least (however it would have been really cool to watch it happening!)
-Oz
Why not? You've most likely consumed multiple bi-products of "privately funded science" today.
-Oz
Waht seems to be going on right now is that we are breaking into two distinct groups of people, those who want to do something about how we treat the planet, and those who do not. The among the one's who do want to do something about it, there are those who want to tax westernized nations until their economies match the pace of the rest of the "developing" (ie 3rd world economies) world. Unfortunately they are compelled by greed for the power to flip the off-switch on the general public, while they and their friends enjoy the utmost comfort, and opulence our modern society can provide. They hate hard science because it doesn't scare the public enough, so they fudge the numbers the scientists give them.
Then there are those who make their opulence and comfort from doing things the way we have been doing them since the beginning of the industrial revolution. They have no desire to change (except to make more money for the same or less), and see no reason they should be forced to.. They see no wrong in drilling every oil deposit, falling every tree, raping the bounty of the seas, and building on anything flat enough to support a human structure. they think they can do this in perpetuity without ill effect, and hate hard science because it tells them that they can't.
Then there is the general public, left without the knowledge of science, they are taught to hate science because they don't understand it, and are being lied to by people whose interests conflict with the data given.
-Oz
Another way to look at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVC0FcSRxL8
I can also foresee mental issues arising for body-builders taking this substance. As they have lower fat percentages (as low as 3% in some cases) their brains would most likely starve in some way if muscle could no longer be converted to fat.
-Oz
If anything I'd expect gym attendance to increase dramatically. You can pop all the pills you want but the body is a fat-hording machine. If you aren't doing "something" to burn extra calories, they are most likely going to congregate for a consolidation meeting at your ass!
-Oz
Improving the process of creating inefficiencies.....somehow that seems kind of backwards to me.
-Oz
Hey numb-skull, the same techniques and technologies they are using to oppress their people will soon be used to oppress you. Why do you think your govt has made over 8 MILLION requests to get your private GPS location data from your cell phone? Remember cash-for-clunkers? Yeah, ever single one of those brand new cars has GPS hardware (and the ability to shut off your car via remote control). None of the American people wanted to give them the ability to do what they are doing (which is actually quite illegal) but our "representatives" have created enough loop-holes to make it (and more)possible. There, now do you understand WTF I was saying?
-Oz
With the way our administration is attempting to force their healthcare bill through, I think it's becoming obvious how close we are getting to having the same thing here. Our Congress entirely ignored their constituencies, and I doubt the Senate will do much better.
-Oz
Sad thing is that some still call me a paranoid conspiracy nut when I tell them that's the reason we had cash for clunkers. Note that they simply destroyed the vehicles they bought from us. If I were in the same position, I would have hired a few thousand laid-off autoworkers to part out the cars and digitize the inventory. I am certain that over the next 3 years the program would have paid for itself many times over! But no, we didn't do that, Instead they filled the motors with liquid glass, flattened them, and shipped them off to a Chinese landfill. Why? Funny thing is, every single vehicle they sold us in return all have GPS capable hardware as standard parts.
Kind of hard to run from the cops when they can just shut your motor down by remote control.
-Oz