I disagree. Americans don't drive 400 miles regularly. We drive 400 miles when we travel, not when we do our day to day lives.
There are electrical vehicles from the late 70s and early 80s that are still functional today and would still suffice for most americans (under 60 miles a day).
FACT: Your daily driver doesn't need to be your long range traveler.
In the last 8 years or so (fuel prices you are habituated with) we've gotten our fuel for between 50-130 dollars per barrel. At the current efficiency of the system, you're looking at a 20 dollar per barrel reduction in cost over fossil fuels....
Lets get microbes involved... at least they don't have the intelligence to know they are slaves.
Umm, because bacteria, algae and plants make hydrocarbons in exactly this method? The problem is the steps involved to make these kinds of chemicals (gasoline) are generally waste products (from other reactions) which poison the algae, making it difficult to get high concentrations/ lots of production.
It isn't *that* hard. JC Venter's venture (cosponsored 49% by exxon mobil) uses algae that produce the fuels and secrete.
The secreted fuel then floats to the top of the bioreactor where it is readily skimmed/siphoned.
What i've gathered from this is that it took under 3 days to get all of the present info databased to another company/locus/system where it can then be redistributed and facebook can return to seeming like its safe now.
You've got a misguided view on medical marijuana propositions.
The reason personal growing and cooperatives (always nonprofit fyi) is part of the propositions is because people can easily produce the medicine themselves. It doesn't require difficult or dangerous processes or materials as many/most pharmaceuticals do. This allows people to be empowered to cheaply produce a medicine that their doctor recommends. If you needed viagra, and it turned out viagra was a simply done extract from a cactus --- then you would likely be proactive in a system where people can grow the cactus and extract it, or pay reasonable compensation to a cooperative where others are doing it for you.
Despite the recent movement to the contrary, not everything needs to be done by companies FOR YOU. You can do things on your own. You can fix your car. You can change your oil. You can assemble your PC. You can write your own scripts. You can make home movies. You can grow your own medicine. Sometimes the barrier to making your medicine is too great... I took a year of organic chemistry and it very clear to me that many/most drugs out there are best produced by professionals (in labs you test for purity, etc). It would be pretty hard to screw up pot in a dangerous way.
I support medical cannabis -- indeed, I support the end of all drug prohibition laws. But how is there a "right to privacy" any more than for any other pharmacetuical? Every pharmacy has stuff with more street value than weed, yet the locations of licensed pharmacies are public records, aren't they?
Where I live there were two recent robberies of pharmacies... They first hired armed guards, but then decided not to carry the desired pharmaceuticals of crackhead robbers.
The shame about cannabis is that people aren't robbing growt to smoke it; the cost for individuals to get stoned is so low its just pure stupid to do crime for it --- they're doing it to sell it because its easy to get a few pounds and score several thousand dollars.
You don't live in an area that is ailed by break ins and murders over pot, do you? One of my friends was murdered for 20 pounds. That's about 60k.
A pound of pot, which is about the size of a small turkey, is worth between 2-7k, depending on its quality and how it is sold on the street.
A pound of liquor is worth about 20 bucks.
If liquor was black market, and highly profitable as such, you would see the same break ins and murders even with increased security. I believe we called this the 'prohibition era', which stands in complete parallel to our current situation with cannabis. ----------- My point is that no increase in security will prevent the products of black markets from coming around, and that your argument is NOT useful at all.
You can get an RX for over the counter and freely available substances too. All that means is that the doctor recommends its use (and that your insurance will pay for it now).
It is the fact that cannabis is a controlled substance that you're at ends with. Anyone with xp in canna knows its a joke to have it controlled, but thats an argument best had between someone who knows about it and someone who clearly doesn't (opposition). Its a pretty rare feat to find people with xp on cannabis that still want it controlled to the degree it is. Reefer madness is still fading slowly.
I think what he means is to stand up and defend the trust fund and right to profit from exploiting people and resources.
The most aggressive movements right now are telling people they don't need to get along to have a successful society. They're saying its a ME thing not a WE thing. I wish I knew of an anarchy to send them to so we can all be happy with where we are. I just can't believe so many people having benefit from WE, are now claiming self success and pointing at it as the only lifeline one can have. Have you a life that required nothing of others? How naive can a person be not to see how everything comes from others?
"Sarah Palin has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action.” --Gabrielle Gifford March 25, 2010, MSNBC Interview.
I can see it now... "Oh.. but it was all 'jokes' ya know... for sure... nobody meant to shoot her. Its like crosshairs, like we joke about shootin a bear in Alaska!" -- Sarah Palin, predicted quote for future response to this event.
The nice thing is, no corporation can force me to be part of them. Government on the other hand, I have no choice to be controlled.
You can be heavily pressured, though. I've found that corporation's that I disagree with are largely afloat by the same useful idiots that keep the system rolling. My non-participation doesn't affect them very much at all --- and eventually you are pressured to choose between getting something you want by supporting the corporate monopoly that owns it.
An example is AT&T. They are the devil in all cases from my experience and of close friends. But where I live AT&T is often the *ONLY* choice for high speed internet. Much of my life requires HSI so I am pretty much forced to cooperate. It really sucks.
FYI, whenever I call AT&T for assistance/service (because they are not reliable and rip you off on bills), at the end they say "THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING AT&T", I am always glad to remind them that "I DID NOT CHOOSE AT&T AT ALL. YOUR COMPANY HAS A MONOPOLY AND THOUGH I HATE IT, I HAVE NO CHOICE FOR HOME LANDLINE OR DSL."
You mean a group of handset manufacturers outsold a single manufacturer of handsets.
Although you are not wrong, you clearly missed the point. What you point out is only a side-note to the actual point which is that ANDROID is on more phones being sold than iOS.
Probably way late, but the car noises are being lobbied for by the American Federation for the Blind.
I understand that. And I wrote what I wrote anyway. It doesn't mean I regard the blind as 'motherfuckers', or lack empathy for their condition. It means I believe the blind, and others, are capable of exercising caution and awareness.
Sure it has bearing on what Sam36 said; he was wrong to call it evolution where he (as I said before) was probably thinking about natural selection.
And please don't be the kind of tard to play semantics with me. If you go to see the 'main event', is that a single identifiable point in time or will it last 12 rounds?
Evolution is actually a very specific event. Death from stupidity is NOT evolution. It may be an example of natural selection, which drives evolution, but the death in and of itself is not evolution at all.
I doubt his taxes paid for all the roads. Most were in place and paid for by others before he was born. Telco infrastructure. Security as produced by our military, whic was all put in place before he was born.... did he also invent the language he communicates with? When should I stop... I can go all day with examples of where he didn't do it on his own.
You are under what is called the "illusion of meritocracy".
It's a delusion that many people encounter where they feel they achieved everything of their own merit and pay no recognition to the vast community and social efforts that actually made it all possible.
Now please explain to me how you would get to work without the roads that WE paid for. You said you pay your own way but I"m pretty sure you didn't pay for all the roads you use. Go ahead and humor me, the truth of the world will give me thousands of examples to embarrass you with.
I do. I believe he meant 'natural selection', where natural selection is a driving force for evolution, but in itself is not evolution at all.
On another note, apparently the game Natural Selection 2 is due out very soon. The first was an AMAZINGLY fun mod for half life... i'm not sure the details of NS2 because I just heard about it yesterday but... well... its likely gonna be sick.
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I disagree. Americans don't drive 400 miles regularly. We drive 400 miles when we travel, not when we do our day to day lives.
There are electrical vehicles from the late 70s and early 80s that are still functional today and would still suffice for most americans (under 60 miles a day).
FACT: Your daily driver doesn't need to be your long range traveler.
what are you even talking about?
In the last 8 years or so (fuel prices you are habituated with) we've gotten our fuel for between 50-130 dollars per barrel. At the current efficiency of the system, you're looking at a 20 dollar per barrel reduction in cost over fossil fuels....
Lets get microbes involved... at least they don't have the intelligence to know they are slaves.
Umm, because bacteria, algae and plants make hydrocarbons in exactly this method?
The problem is the steps involved to make these kinds of chemicals (gasoline) are generally waste products (from other reactions) which poison the algae, making it difficult to get high concentrations/ lots of production.
It isn't *that* hard. JC Venter's venture (cosponsored 49% by exxon mobil) uses algae that produce the fuels and secrete.
The secreted fuel then floats to the top of the bioreactor where it is readily skimmed/siphoned.
I agree a million fold.
I am hoping these findings will give netflix some incentive to get us streams of everything they make available.
Comcast has oversold your local drop or you need your lines fixed.
What i've gathered from this is that it took under 3 days to get all of the present info databased to another company/locus/system where it can then be redistributed and facebook can return to seeming like its safe now.
Instead of going for the facts (just as you didn't), I'll just go for the fallacy.
You're an idiot.
You've got a misguided view on medical marijuana propositions.
The reason personal growing and cooperatives (always nonprofit fyi) is part of the propositions is because people can easily produce the medicine themselves. It doesn't require difficult or dangerous processes or materials as many/most pharmaceuticals do. This allows people to be empowered to cheaply produce a medicine that their doctor recommends. If you needed viagra, and it turned out viagra was a simply done extract from a cactus --- then you would likely be proactive in a system where people can grow the cactus and extract it, or pay reasonable compensation to a cooperative where others are doing it for you.
Despite the recent movement to the contrary, not everything needs to be done by companies FOR YOU. You can do things on your own. You can fix your car. You can change your oil. You can assemble your PC. You can write your own scripts. You can make home movies. You can grow your own medicine. Sometimes the barrier to making your medicine is too great... I took a year of organic chemistry and it very clear to me that many/most drugs out there are best produced by professionals (in labs you test for purity, etc). It would be pretty hard to screw up pot in a dangerous way.
I support medical cannabis -- indeed, I support the end of all drug prohibition laws. But how is there a "right to privacy" any more than for any other pharmacetuical? Every pharmacy has stuff with more street value than weed, yet the locations of licensed pharmacies are public records, aren't they?
Where I live there were two recent robberies of pharmacies... They first hired armed guards, but then decided not to carry the desired pharmaceuticals of crackhead robbers.
The shame about cannabis is that people aren't robbing growt to smoke it; the cost for individuals to get stoned is so low its just pure stupid to do crime for it --- they're doing it to sell it because its easy to get a few pounds and score several thousand dollars.
You don't live in an area that is ailed by break ins and murders over pot, do you? One of my friends was murdered for 20 pounds. That's about 60k.
A pound of pot, which is about the size of a small turkey, is worth between 2-7k, depending on its quality and how it is sold on the street.
A pound of liquor is worth about 20 bucks.
If liquor was black market, and highly profitable as such, you would see the same break ins and murders even with increased security. I believe we called this the 'prohibition era', which stands in complete parallel to our current situation with cannabis.
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My point is that no increase in security will prevent the products of black markets from coming around, and that your argument is NOT useful at all.
Fortunately, science has shown that cannabis can not be attributed to serious damages or ailments on individuals or society.
But I see your point about McDonalds, Marlboro, and Michelob.
You can get an RX for over the counter and freely available substances too. All that means is that the doctor recommends its use (and that your insurance will pay for it now).
It is the fact that cannabis is a controlled substance that you're at ends with. Anyone with xp in canna knows its a joke to have it controlled, but thats an argument best had between someone who knows about it and someone who clearly doesn't (opposition). Its a pretty rare feat to find people with xp on cannabis that still want it controlled to the degree it is. Reefer madness is still fading slowly.
I think what he means is to stand up and defend the trust fund and right to profit from exploiting people and resources.
The most aggressive movements right now are telling people they don't need to get along to have a successful society. They're saying its a ME thing not a WE thing. I wish I knew of an anarchy to send them to so we can all be happy with where we are. I just can't believe so many people having benefit from WE, are now claiming self success and pointing at it as the only lifeline one can have. Have you a life that required nothing of others? How naive can a person be not to see how everything comes from others?
"Sarah Palin has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action.”
--Gabrielle Gifford March 25, 2010, MSNBC Interview.
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I can see it now... "Oh.. but it was all 'jokes' ya know... for sure... nobody meant to shoot her. Its like crosshairs, like we joke about shootin a bear in Alaska!" -- Sarah Palin, predicted quote for future response to this event.
The nice thing is, no corporation can force me to be part of them.
Government on the other hand, I have no choice to be controlled.
You can be heavily pressured, though. I've found that corporation's that I disagree with are largely afloat by the same useful idiots that keep the system rolling. My non-participation doesn't affect them very much at all --- and eventually you are pressured to choose between getting something you want by supporting the corporate monopoly that owns it.
An example is AT&T. They are the devil in all cases from my experience and of close friends. But where I live AT&T is often the *ONLY* choice for high speed internet. Much of my life requires HSI so I am pretty much forced to cooperate. It really sucks.
FYI, whenever I call AT&T for assistance/service (because they are not reliable and rip you off on bills), at the end they say "THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING AT&T", I am always glad to remind them that "I DID NOT CHOOSE AT&T AT ALL. YOUR COMPANY HAS A MONOPOLY AND THOUGH I HATE IT, I HAVE NO CHOICE FOR HOME LANDLINE OR DSL."
You mean a group of handset manufacturers outsold a single manufacturer of handsets.
Although you are not wrong, you clearly missed the point. What you point out is only a side-note to the actual point which is that ANDROID is on more phones being sold than iOS.
Apple fanboys tolerate it forever.
I like more than just apples in my garden... and wtf are all these walls here for?
Round One....
FIGHT!
Probably way late, but the car noises are being lobbied for by the American Federation for the Blind.
I understand that. And I wrote what I wrote anyway. It doesn't mean I regard the blind as 'motherfuckers', or lack empathy for their condition. It means I believe the blind, and others, are capable of exercising caution and awareness.
Sure it has bearing on what Sam36 said; he was wrong to call it evolution where he (as I said before) was probably thinking about natural selection.
And please don't be the kind of tard to play semantics with me. If you go to see the 'main event', is that a single identifiable point in time or will it last 12 rounds?
You're not a biologist, obviously.
Evolution is actually a very specific event. Death from stupidity is NOT evolution. It may be an example of natural selection, which drives evolution, but the death in and of itself is not evolution at all.
I doubt his taxes paid for all the roads. Most were in place and paid for by others before he was born. Telco infrastructure. Security as produced by our military, whic was all put in place before he was born.... did he also invent the language he communicates with? When should I stop... I can go all day with examples of where he didn't do it on his own.
You are under what is called the "illusion of meritocracy".
It's a delusion that many people encounter where they feel they achieved everything of their own merit and pay no recognition to the vast community and social efforts that actually made it all possible.
Now please explain to me how you would get to work without the roads that WE paid for. You said you pay your own way but I"m pretty sure you didn't pay for all the roads you use. Go ahead and humor me, the truth of the world will give me thousands of examples to embarrass you with.
You don't know what evolution is, do you?
I do. I believe he meant 'natural selection', where natural selection is a driving force for evolution, but in itself is not evolution at all.
On another note, apparently the game Natural Selection 2 is due out very soon. The first was an AMAZINGLY fun mod for half life... i'm not sure the details of NS2 because I just heard about it yesterday but... well... its likely gonna be sick.
who are you agreeing with? apparently you built up a strawman in your head, misrepresented what I said, and then attacked it...
*whoooosh*