Contrary to what most people believe, "organic" does not automatically mean "pesticide-free" or "chemical-free". In fact, under the laws of most states, organic farmers are allowed to use a wide variety of chemical sprays and powders on their crops.
So what does organic mean? It means that these pesticides, if used, must be derived from natural sources, not synthetically manufactured. Also, these pesticides must be applied using equipment that has not been used to apply any synthetic materials for the past three years, and the land being planted cannot have been treated with synthetic materials for that period either.
Most organic farmers (and even some conventional farmers, too) employ mechanical and cultural tools to help control pests. These include insect traps, careful crop selection (there are a growing number of disease-resistant varieties), and biological controls (such as predator insects and beneficial microorganisms).
ORGANIC PRODUCE AND PERSONAL HEALTH When you test synthetic chemicals for their ability to cause cancer, you find that about half of them are carcinogenic.
Until recently, nobody bothered to look at natural chemicals (such as organic pesticides), because it was assumed that they posed little risk. But when the studies were done, the results were somewhat shocking: you find that about half of the natural chemicals studied are carcinogenic as well.
This is a case where everyone (consumers, farmers, researchers) made the same, dangerous mistake. We assumed that "natural" chemicals were automatically better and safer than synthetic materials, and we were wrong. It's important that we be more prudent in our acceptance of "natural" as being innocuous and harmless.
The best way to pick up chicks is to say "damn bitch, you fat!" and then when she starts crying tell her to chiill out, cause you were really talking about her friend.
I recently took over for a staff which had been interned in their positions for the better part of a decade. Out with the old in-house staff, in with the new outsourced IT 'team'.
I second the Foxfire collection. The first three books are the best, and they are available from Amazon in dead-tree format at a ridiculously low price.
Got the first 6 Foxfire books here at home, they sit next to my old World Book Encyclopedia and Dictionary set.
You might want to add the Radio Shack Forrest Mims books to your collection. Good stuff there.
Slashdot Mirror
New site design sucks balls.
Why is there no "html only, no javascript, AJAX, or other cycle-wasting garbage" option in the control panel?
With just 3 tabs open in Firefox on Linux, all of them Slashdot stories:
Every time I scroll the page, CPU usage jumps to 100%
That doesn't happen on any other sites except mainstream ad-laden garbage sites like Facobook or CNN.
Replying to myself... no I don't have Alzheimer's.
Just 4 tabs open in Firefox on Linux, all of them Slashdot stories.
Every time I scroll the page, CPU usage jumps to 100%
That doesn't happen on any other sites except mainstream ad-laden garbage sites like Facobook or CNN.
What the hell, man?
Why the fuck is there no "html only, no javascript, AJAX, or other cycle-wasting garbage" option in the control panel?
This is Slashdot, not HuffPo.
Damn.
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lhom/organictext.html
Contrary to what most people believe, "organic" does not automatically mean "pesticide-free" or "chemical-free". In fact, under the laws of most states, organic farmers are allowed to use a wide variety of chemical sprays and powders on their crops.
So what does organic mean? It means that these pesticides, if used, must be derived from natural sources, not synthetically manufactured. Also, these pesticides must be applied using equipment that has not been used to apply any synthetic materials for the past three years, and the land being planted cannot have been treated with synthetic materials for that period either.
Most organic farmers (and even some conventional farmers, too) employ mechanical and cultural tools to help control pests. These include insect traps, careful crop selection (there are a growing number of disease-resistant varieties), and biological controls (such as predator insects and beneficial microorganisms).
ORGANIC PRODUCE AND PERSONAL HEALTH
When you test synthetic chemicals for their ability to cause cancer, you find that about half of them are carcinogenic.
Until recently, nobody bothered to look at natural chemicals (such as organic pesticides), because it was assumed that they posed little risk. But when the studies were done, the results were somewhat shocking: you find that about half of the natural chemicals studied are carcinogenic as well.
This is a case where everyone (consumers, farmers, researchers) made the same, dangerous mistake. We assumed that "natural" chemicals were automatically better and safer than synthetic materials, and we were wrong. It's important that we be more prudent in our acceptance of "natural" as being innocuous and harmless.
The best way to pick up chicks is to say "damn bitch, you fat!" and then when she starts crying tell her to chiill out, cause you were really talking about her friend.
As a Japanese fishing vessel, it is more likely to be crewed by little bitty one-eyed snakes.
"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."
-- Linus Torvalds
...pathetic police officers who shoot 80 rounds at a ...cougar)...
What is wrong with older women who like younger men?
Doesn't seem like a capital crime, now, does it?
Single core FTW.
A P4 or Pentium M does what I need it to do, cheaply.
Bone Thugs was better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtsKcHmceqY
Citation? (please, I am genuinely interested)
Why does trepanning always get a bad rap?
I mean, we always made sure to follow it with leeches.
I'm gonna grape you in the mouth!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqq051BU2MY
Your 60 seconds of brainwashing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2BfqDUPL1I
Can we all hail Pope Ratzo, instead?
Go ahead, punk.
Touch my Pong.
In related news, bitter wives are working toward orgasm-free sex.
I keep all of my incriminating stuff on microfilm in a tiny plastic capsule stuck into the hole on the end of my wiener.
The reason for anonymity is to air your views while avoiding persecution by those who disagree, be they legislators or moderators.
The French are mutating?!
OMG! WTF!
I recently took over for a staff which had been interned in their positions for the better part of a decade. Out with the old in-house staff, in with the new outsourced IT 'team'.
More concerning teams and teamwork in general:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGFGD5pj03M
I second the Foxfire collection. The first three books are the best, and they are available from Amazon in dead-tree format at a ridiculously low price.
Got the first 6 Foxfire books here at home, they sit next to my old World Book Encyclopedia and Dictionary set.
You might want to add the Radio Shack Forrest Mims books to your collection. Good stuff there.
elephant492GENERATION
1. Virtualbox container - Debian Privoxy/TOR server
2. Virtualbox container - DSL LiveCD set to use Debian TOR server
3. ???
4. Anonymity
Sounds like a lot of "Monday morning quarterback" crap.
Pie-in-the-sky research is what makes us great.
Excelsior!