Boycotts and such never really work though. Telling someone they shouldn't buy an inexpensive product that does the job because of some idealistic notion or other is never going to sway enough people. What will change China is the Chinese. As they become more affluent they will also be growing up in cities with horrible just... horrible pollution. It will begin to impact health and then their government will begin to respond. They also won't be able to artificially keep the yuan down relative to other currencies forever as they continue to grow. Products will slowly continue become more expensive.
In all seriousness... modern diet and lifestyle. Pre-agriculture man was tall and healthy compared to the little people that populated the world prior to the mid 20th century. Well, the ones that lived. Take a look at some of the early french paintings with plains indians and frenchmen in the same scene. It's pretty laughable. Europeans looked like stunted children next to them.
Only seems weak because we live soft lives and never really fully "develop" into men these days. Most modern males have pretty weak jaws and faces (overbites no room for wisdom teeth etc) not due to heredity but instead environment. If you actually let kids use their jaws to chew stuff instead of cutting everything up and swapped out much of the carb load for more fat and protein you'd see a dramatic change in the populations facial structure. We'd look more like native americans who have stronger features.
It isn't the last mile fiber that is the problem. It isn't Verizon's network at all really. It is the bandwidth to the CDN Verizon refuses to bolster. I'm not familiar with Verizon's infrastructure but I see no reason why FIOS would be any better than DSL in this regard.
I make several times that but spend less than that amount each month and live in a mid size city in the US. Anyone should be able to live on 30K a year in most areas of this country. Now if you've decided you want to earn that much and let you wife stay home a pop out kids yeah you'll have a probelm. That problem is of your own making though.
The majority of people do not approach such things in any kind of critical way. It has been pointed out for years that just because say Europe has a higher percentage of people that believe evolution to be correct than the states that doesn't mean those folks are any more intelligent or sophisticated. Most people just believe what they are taught and move on with their lives. All they need is some sort of model whether it be solid or undefendable and they are comfortable. That holds true for evolution and pretty much everything else.
You're basically taking the position that just because the entire government is evil that doesn't mean the country is. I think for the purposes of this dicsussion the two are synonymous. The few Iranians I know are good people but that doesn't mean the country isn't really messed up. I'm also not sure that it's valid to say that Iranians as a people have some advantage because they "see through the political BS more than Americans". I mean sure, I'd get super sceptical pretty quick if my government routinely arrested dissidents and paraded them hooded in front of national TV to give forced confessions for things like going out in public without wearing a veil but that doesn't mean I've suddently become more sophisticated or gained any great insight. It just means my country got really evil.
Agreed. I use a bit of ground sea salt as an abrasive but other than that just water. I've never had better skin and it's nice at the end of the day for your face not to be all oily like most whose skins are trying to compensate for the soap having stripped everything away.
The teenagers in the "deep south" dragging down those results probably can't read all that well either. There are all sorts of systemic problems in for example rural Mississippi that go way beyond good math scores but at the same time those kids lead very different lives from the average suburban or urban teenager so I don't think it really tells you much to get an "average" math test score including these groups and then extrapolate something about about the US education system -which granted has its problems.
Sigh.. withdrawn. Canada immigration rate is higher than states. Still though most immigrants are from the states, europe and asia. I still take the position that the states have much more of poor and downtroden category of immigrants.
I described the process in place. I made no judgement if it was ethically or morally correct. There is a high amount of collateral damage that is a given with most any action like this. It is significantly less though than traditional solutions for taking such targets out. You could of course argue that without drones traditional solutions would be used much more sparingly if all.
'Radical' in this case typically means orchestrated bombings resulting the the deaths of civilians. There have been cases in which we've identified terrorist leaders responsible for horrific bombings on foreign soil but because they were not focused in their ideology on targetting the US specifically deigned not to take them out -even though the countries they're victimizing would have been very happy with that result.
I'm not defending the drone attacks but you need to understand that each of these attacks must be approved by attorney's representing multiple departments in the US during a go / no go briefing before hand.
Dairy is a different beast and I can't speak to that but beef cattle aren't factory farmed for the most part until the final few weeks of their lives. Most cattle in the states actually have good lives up until the horrors at the end where they are cramped together and fed nothing but antibiotic laden grain to keep them alive while they pack on weight. It would be pretty easy to move to mostly humanely raised grass fed but the problem is it isn't quite as efficient so of course we end up with feed lot beef lacking much in the way of nutritional content compared to grass fed. There's also the irritating notion amongst restaurants that feeding them all the same crap at the end standardizes flavor. Grass fed beef can have some variability in taste depending on what they've been munching on.
You're generally right but dairy cows actually make up a significant percentage or the beef we eat just a relatively small one. Dairy beef also imo tends to taste better they just aren't as efficient as a beef breed bred to focus all their energy into weight gain.
I can only speak for my country (USA). There were tens of millions of bison historically. I think many pre-columbus estimates are at about 60 million. A quick google search on cattle inventory for thess states puts their number at around 87 million. I'm not sure about how the numbers of other ruminants native to north america would fit in. The thing is, moving to pure agriculture isn't exactly going to do those species any favors. At least cattle are a pretty good analogue to bison ecologically. If we're living off of nothing but grain an legumes we're going to be allocating much more land to monocultures vs the varied species of grasses and other plants you'd find in pasture.
You can't have grasslands without ruminants. Try that in most areas of the world and you end up with desert. Saying that raising cattle takes more water than raising grain is really kind of silly because you cannot separate grassland from grazing animals any more than you can take animals out of the forest and expect it to flourish. You'd have to then also add up all the energy and water used in creation of the fertilizer and the machinery used to keep the mono-culture productive then the energy to harvest it and the toll you're taking on the land creating pretty barren landscapes from most of the local wildlife's perspective. An ecosystem is both the animals and the plants both depending on one another. Cattle rotated on land correctly using high intensity grazing improves and increases soil providing better plant coverage and increases a pastures ability to retain water. You'll actually see standing water and creeks come back. You can take an old cattle farm that has been poorly managed or just some empty grassland that some well intentioned bureaucrat has been keeping cattle off of for 5 decades and completely heal it simply by moving your cattle in a way that mimics be behavior of wild herds -historically bison in my area.
Hate to reply to my own post but actually you probably don't even have to be skilled at least at first. If you're ok with moving to almost the middle of nowhere (south east NM, North Dakota etc) you can probably start out at 80k a year just checking on and maintaining production wells. I know kids making that straight out of high school.
Nah they don't have to be putting in any large amount of time. Youre talking about wells that might produce 1000+ barrels a day plus natural gas as a bonus. Getting them producing and keeping them that way means that skilled labor can command a premium. There's probably also a degree of hazard pay in that dealing with H2S and risk of a large 'boom'.
Sticking a bunch of cows in one spot and leaving them is damaging I suppose but so is keeping them off the land. High intensity grazing is basically necessary for healthy grasslands. No more million head hers of roaming bison? You NEED cattle to prevent desertification.
You are correct but the simple fact is that as electronics in general and audio visual hardware specifically becomes more ubiquitous/miniaturized with wearable devices it just isn't going to be enforceable or even noticable for much longer. The technology is not going to stagnate and in the end people and companies are just going to have to adjust. Not that I consider that necessarily a good thing.
It's fine as long as you know what you're doing enough to install classic shell and then re-associate media files to vlc or something. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to get out of the xbox like interface last time I tried to play a movie in Windows 8. I'll still occationally click some control panel option that takes me into the new Win 8 UI.. even with classic shell it's very frustrating.
They can't act much worse than the traditional large financial institutions. Not sure how this makes bitcoin that much less reliable than stocks, the US dollar or the EURO
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Boycotts and such never really work though. Telling someone they shouldn't buy an inexpensive product that does the job because of some idealistic notion or other is never going to sway enough people. What will change China is the Chinese. As they become more affluent they will also be growing up in cities with horrible just ... horrible pollution. It will begin to impact health and then their government will begin to respond. They also won't be able to artificially keep the yuan down relative to other currencies forever as they continue to grow. Products will slowly continue become more expensive.
In all seriousness... modern diet and lifestyle. Pre-agriculture man was tall and healthy compared to the little people that populated the world prior to the mid 20th century. Well, the ones that lived. Take a look at some of the early french paintings with plains indians and frenchmen in the same scene. It's pretty laughable. Europeans looked like stunted children next to them.
Only seems weak because we live soft lives and never really fully "develop" into men these days. Most modern males have pretty weak jaws and faces (overbites no room for wisdom teeth etc) not due to heredity but instead environment. If you actually let kids use their jaws to chew stuff instead of cutting everything up and swapped out much of the carb load for more fat and protein you'd see a dramatic change in the populations facial structure. We'd look more like native americans who have stronger features.
It isn't the last mile fiber that is the problem. It isn't Verizon's network at all really. It is the bandwidth to the CDN Verizon refuses to bolster. I'm not familiar with Verizon's infrastructure but I see no reason why FIOS would be any better than DSL in this regard.
If you're not working full time you have time to work 2 part time jobs. Hell even if you are working full time you have time for another part time job
I make several times that but spend less than that amount each month and live in a mid size city in the US. Anyone should be able to live on 30K a year in most areas of this country. Now if you've decided you want to earn that much and let you wife stay home a pop out kids yeah you'll have a probelm. That problem is of your own making though.
The majority of people do not approach such things in any kind of critical way. It has been pointed out for years that just because say Europe has a higher percentage of people that believe evolution to be correct than the states that doesn't mean those folks are any more intelligent or sophisticated. Most people just believe what they are taught and move on with their lives. All they need is some sort of model whether it be solid or undefendable and they are comfortable. That holds true for evolution and pretty much everything else.
You're basically taking the position that just because the entire government is evil that doesn't mean the country is. I think for the purposes of this dicsussion the two are synonymous. The few Iranians I know are good people but that doesn't mean the country isn't really messed up. I'm also not sure that it's valid to say that Iranians as a people have some advantage because they "see through the political BS more than Americans". I mean sure, I'd get super sceptical pretty quick if my government routinely arrested dissidents and paraded them hooded in front of national TV to give forced confessions for things like going out in public without wearing a veil but that doesn't mean I've suddently become more sophisticated or gained any great insight. It just means my country got really evil.
Agreed. I use a bit of ground sea salt as an abrasive but other than that just water. I've never had better skin and it's nice at the end of the day for your face not to be all oily like most whose skins are trying to compensate for the soap having stripped everything away.
The teenagers in the "deep south" dragging down those results probably can't read all that well either. There are all sorts of systemic problems in for example rural Mississippi that go way beyond good math scores but at the same time those kids lead very different lives from the average suburban or urban teenager so I don't think it really tells you much to get an "average" math test score including these groups and then extrapolate something about about the US education system -which granted has its problems.
Sigh.. withdrawn. Canada immigration rate is higher than states. Still though most immigrants are from the states, europe and asia. I still take the position that the states have much more of poor and downtroden category of immigrants.
Might have something to do with this (compare US and Canada): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
I described the process in place. I made no judgement if it was ethically or morally correct. There is a high amount of collateral damage that is a given with most any action like this. It is significantly less though than traditional solutions for taking such targets out. You could of course argue that without drones traditional solutions would be used much more sparingly if all.
'Radical' in this case typically means orchestrated bombings resulting the the deaths of civilians. There have been cases in which we've identified terrorist leaders responsible for horrific bombings on foreign soil but because they were not focused in their ideology on targetting the US specifically deigned not to take them out -even though the countries they're victimizing would have been very happy with that result. I'm not defending the drone attacks but you need to understand that each of these attacks must be approved by attorney's representing multiple departments in the US during a go / no go briefing before hand.
Dairy is a different beast and I can't speak to that but beef cattle aren't factory farmed for the most part until the final few weeks of their lives. Most cattle in the states actually have good lives up until the horrors at the end where they are cramped together and fed nothing but antibiotic laden grain to keep them alive while they pack on weight. It would be pretty easy to move to mostly humanely raised grass fed but the problem is it isn't quite as efficient so of course we end up with feed lot beef lacking much in the way of nutritional content compared to grass fed. There's also the irritating notion amongst restaurants that feeding them all the same crap at the end standardizes flavor. Grass fed beef can have some variability in taste depending on what they've been munching on.
You're generally right but dairy cows actually make up a significant percentage or the beef we eat just a relatively small one. Dairy beef also imo tends to taste better they just aren't as efficient as a beef breed bred to focus all their energy into weight gain.
I can only speak for my country (USA). There were tens of millions of bison historically. I think many pre-columbus estimates are at about 60 million. A quick google search on cattle inventory for thess states puts their number at around 87 million. I'm not sure about how the numbers of other ruminants native to north america would fit in. The thing is, moving to pure agriculture isn't exactly going to do those species any favors. At least cattle are a pretty good analogue to bison ecologically. If we're living off of nothing but grain an legumes we're going to be allocating much more land to monocultures vs the varied species of grasses and other plants you'd find in pasture.
You can't have grasslands without ruminants. Try that in most areas of the world and you end up with desert. Saying that raising cattle takes more water than raising grain is really kind of silly because you cannot separate grassland from grazing animals any more than you can take animals out of the forest and expect it to flourish. You'd have to then also add up all the energy and water used in creation of the fertilizer and the machinery used to keep the mono-culture productive then the energy to harvest it and the toll you're taking on the land creating pretty barren landscapes from most of the local wildlife's perspective. An ecosystem is both the animals and the plants both depending on one another. Cattle rotated on land correctly using high intensity grazing improves and increases soil providing better plant coverage and increases a pastures ability to retain water. You'll actually see standing water and creeks come back. You can take an old cattle farm that has been poorly managed or just some empty grassland that some well intentioned bureaucrat has been keeping cattle off of for 5 decades and completely heal it simply by moving your cattle in a way that mimics be behavior of wild herds -historically bison in my area.
Hate to reply to my own post but actually you probably don't even have to be skilled at least at first. If you're ok with moving to almost the middle of nowhere (south east NM, North Dakota etc) you can probably start out at 80k a year just checking on and maintaining production wells. I know kids making that straight out of high school.
Nah they don't have to be putting in any large amount of time. Youre talking about wells that might produce 1000+ barrels a day plus natural gas as a bonus. Getting them producing and keeping them that way means that skilled labor can command a premium. There's probably also a degree of hazard pay in that dealing with H2S and risk of a large 'boom'.
Remaining 5% trolls aparently: http://arstechnica.com/science...
Sticking a bunch of cows in one spot and leaving them is damaging I suppose but so is keeping them off the land. High intensity grazing is basically necessary for healthy grasslands. No more million head hers of roaming bison? You NEED cattle to prevent desertification.
You are correct but the simple fact is that as electronics in general and audio visual hardware specifically becomes more ubiquitous/miniaturized with wearable devices it just isn't going to be enforceable or even noticable for much longer. The technology is not going to stagnate and in the end people and companies are just going to have to adjust. Not that I consider that necessarily a good thing.
It's fine as long as you know what you're doing enough to install classic shell and then re-associate media files to vlc or something. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to get out of the xbox like interface last time I tried to play a movie in Windows 8. I'll still occationally click some control panel option that takes me into the new Win 8 UI.. even with classic shell it's very frustrating.
They can't act much worse than the traditional large financial institutions. Not sure how this makes bitcoin that much less reliable than stocks, the US dollar or the EURO