And I know of an eighty-year-old grandmother at the front of a peaceful, static demonstration who got batoned. There was a May Day event/semi-protest where the cops took off their ID numbers and waded in full force. (not crowd control cops, and I said they took off their ID numbers; they knew they were breaking the law.) Seven were charged, one got to court and was acquitted, no disciplinary action whatsoever. Since then, arms are issued for cops in case of May 1st protests (this is an unarmed police force). Another cop who was in a crash was whisked from the scene to a local station and held there for several hours - just until they tested his BAC, though. He came in as just under the limit. (As in, over it half an hour previous) And they're only the few I can think of off the top of my head. And, like I said, unarmed police force. I'd hate to see what they'd be like with guns. These are not anecdotes, by the way. These are the ones that featured in the papers.
You know when you come through the airport and the guy in the uniform asks "do you have anything to declare?"
If you have something in your case you should pay import taxes on and you say "no," you're smuggling.
Arthur C.Clarke had the asteroid-tracking program SpaceGuard (no longer fiction, as they named the program after its fictional counterpart when they founded it) discover the spaceship Rama in Rendezvous With Rama. He co-wrote the rest of the series with the Head Of Engineering of the JPL, Gentry Lee. Any chance Mr. Lee would have any input in this? (",)
They're being told to "grow corn, we need fuel" in the US. Food has gone up in price worldwide. I'm not saying it's not a factor, but I think price increases in inputs are rather more significant. Otherwise why has rice gotten expensive in the same trend as corn?
I have been attempting to sell an invention of mine, GBH/IP: Grievous Bodily Harm over Internet Protocol. The basic idea is a motor-driven blunt or sharp instrument mounted on the side of the monitor, which clobbers your correspondent upside the head when invoked. I need investors. Interested?
The "food is more expensive 'cos people are growing biofuel" isn't really true, and cover for another problem.
Food moves around on trucks.
Massive simplification, of course. For US farms: fertilizer price has gone up because the fuel to transport the raw ingredients to the factory has gone up, the energy to make it costs more, and it costs more to transport it to farms. Fuel for farm machinery costs more. Feed costs more for precisely the same reason as the fertilizer, plus it takes fertilizer to grow feed, plus...
Retail price = cost[0] + cost[1]...+ cost[n] + enough to live and do it all again next year. Costs[0] to [n] have almost universally gotten more expensive. 'Enough to live' has gotten more expensive. 'Enough to do it all again next year' has gotten more expensive. Oddly enough, food is more expensive!
As long as we don't get sucked into a global inflationary spiral, we'll be OK... the problem is if poor management of currencies in south america and asia drag us into a mess.
You genuinely believe that the condition of the real might drag down the US? Wonderful, the biggest economy in the world is dancing on the head of a pin.
Even if it was true, the shakiness of the entire global economy at the moment can be directly traced to US institutions selling US mortgages as investment portfolios, and underestimating the risk. Not that the financial bodies who bought them aren't morons, but there was a certain "good faith" assumption.
That's a good solution: the only problem is it would put the entire world economy into the meat grinder. A globalized financial services market allowed the US to export the risk its deregulated banks created. Now governments are attempting to prop up those greedy bastards who over-exposed themselves, hoping to prevent crashes, anarchy, and all theother fun stuff.
Yes, but oil is (or was) only sold in dollars, forcing every country above Stone Age tech to hold a reserve of USD. Which allowed the US to ruin its balance of payments, and pull a few other tricks, since they owned a little bit of everyone.
As a resident of another debt-ridden country, plastic promotes consumer spending (and you stated the reason why admirably). What drives economic growth...?
One of the questions that bring most enlightenment as to the meaning of government is "What agency has the broadest powers of search/seizure/arrest/that kind of malarkey?"
Overwhelmingly, it's whatever agencies fill the roles of Customs and Excise and taxman.
Fair enough. I picture John Constantine as the man who tricked Satan into drinking holy water, summoned Sid Vicious out of hell by accident, sold his soul to two different Lords of Hell so that neither can claim it without starting a war, and fed the person who killed his ex-girlfriend LSD and locked him in a box with her defrosting, lightly-rotted corpse... I just didn't get that "magnificent bastard" feeling from the movie.
Considering Ledger could act (ever seen "10 Things I Hate About You"?), I always thought those howls were... well, "they mightn't be wrong, but he's worth the benefit of the doubt" was one of my reactions.
He wasn't blond, Cockney, London was never mentioned (yes, Constantine has operated elsewhere, but it's always been obvious London's his home turf), and they turned the character who [SPOILER SPOILER DANGER WILL ROBINSON] tricked the archangel Gabriel into Falling, then took his wings off with a chainsaw and left him on the streets into a repentant Christian. Just... no.
You might get going faster, but you'll have a lot more lumps and bruises from face-planting yourself. One of the advantages of doing it with space stations first is that ubiquitous SF plot device, the escape module. If something goes drastically wrong on the ISS, they pile into a Soyuz, blow clamps, and come home. If something goes drastically wrong on Mars, they... die like rats. That would be about it, yes?
Every mention of this plan I've come across in the press has essentially been "seed ocean with iron, algae, carbon sequestered, profit", with the occasional "squeeze biodiesel from algae" added step in there somewhere. Not one discussion so far has brought the problems; the fact that the yearly algal bloom in the Gulf of Mexico is what causes the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, for instance.
Aer Lingus has turned shit, yes - but you get marginally more legroom, still, and they aren't out to gouge you quite as hard. It's the difference between 5 turns of the thumbscrew and 4, I know, but it's still just that tiny bit nicer... plus it's not giving money to that tosser O'Leary, which is a bonus.
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And I know of an eighty-year-old grandmother at the front of a peaceful, static demonstration who got batoned.
There was a May Day event/semi-protest where the cops took off their ID numbers and waded in full force. (not crowd control cops, and I said they took off their ID numbers; they knew they were breaking the law.) Seven were charged, one got to court and was acquitted, no disciplinary action whatsoever. Since then, arms are issued for cops in case of May 1st protests (this is an unarmed police force).
Another cop who was in a crash was whisked from the scene to a local station and held there for several hours - just until they tested his BAC, though. He came in as just under the limit. (As in, over it half an hour previous)
And they're only the few I can think of off the top of my head. And, like I said, unarmed police force. I'd hate to see what they'd be like with guns.
These are not anecdotes, by the way. These are the ones that featured in the papers.
You know when you come through the airport and the guy in the uniform asks "do you have anything to declare?"
If you have something in your case you should pay import taxes on and you say "no," you're smuggling.
Hey, now. The Wayan brothers and Rob Schneider have to eat, y'know.
Arthur C.Clarke had the asteroid-tracking program SpaceGuard (no longer fiction, as they named the program after its fictional counterpart when they founded it) discover the spaceship Rama in Rendezvous With Rama. He co-wrote the rest of the series with the Head Of Engineering of the JPL, Gentry Lee. Any chance Mr. Lee would have any input in this? (",)
They're being told to "grow corn, we need fuel" in the US. Food has gone up in price worldwide.
I'm not saying it's not a factor, but I think price increases in inputs are rather more significant.
Otherwise why has rice gotten expensive in the same trend as corn?
This problem has been thought of, and a solution suggested. "Hi-ex!"
Crowd control via projectile vomit, or do you think they'd all go off and shower, giving you a chance to get the VIPs out of the place? (",)
Large projectile, low speed: this has serious implication in pillow-fighting.
I have been attempting to sell an invention of mine, GBH/IP: Grievous Bodily Harm over Internet Protocol. The basic idea is a motor-driven blunt or sharp instrument mounted on the side of the monitor, which clobbers your correspondent upside the head when invoked. I need investors. Interested?
Satanism, definitely - tellin' ya, the big man looks after you. ",)
The "food is more expensive 'cos people are growing biofuel" isn't really true, and cover for another problem. Food moves around on trucks.
Massive simplification, of course. For US farms: fertilizer price has gone up because the fuel to transport the raw ingredients to the factory has gone up, the energy to make it costs more, and it costs more to transport it to farms. Fuel for farm machinery costs more. Feed costs more for precisely the same reason as the fertilizer, plus it takes fertilizer to grow feed, plus...
Retail price = cost[0] + cost[1]...+ cost[n] + enough to live and do it all again next year.
Costs[0] to [n] have almost universally gotten more expensive. 'Enough to live' has gotten more expensive. 'Enough to do it all again next year' has gotten more expensive. Oddly enough, food is more expensive!
You genuinely believe that the condition of the real might drag down the US? Wonderful, the biggest economy in the world is dancing on the head of a pin.
Even if it was true, the shakiness of the entire global economy at the moment can be directly traced to US institutions selling US mortgages as investment portfolios, and underestimating the risk. Not that the financial bodies who bought them aren't morons, but there was a certain "good faith" assumption.
That's a good solution: the only problem is it would put the entire world economy into the meat grinder.
A globalized financial services market allowed the US to export the risk its deregulated banks created. Now governments are attempting to prop up those greedy bastards who over-exposed themselves, hoping to prevent crashes, anarchy, and all theother fun stuff.
Yes, but oil is (or was) only sold in dollars, forcing every country above Stone Age tech to hold a reserve of USD. Which allowed the US to ruin its balance of payments, and pull a few other tricks, since they owned a little bit of everyone.
As a resident of another debt-ridden country, plastic promotes consumer spending (and you stated the reason why admirably). What drives economic growth...?
One of the questions that bring most enlightenment as to the meaning of government is "What agency has the broadest powers of search/seizure/arrest/that kind of malarkey?" Overwhelmingly, it's whatever agencies fill the roles of Customs and Excise and taxman.
The London public transit system users see having to pay for services as damage and route around it?
Fair enough.
I picture John Constantine as the man who tricked Satan into drinking holy water, summoned Sid Vicious out of hell by accident, sold his soul to two different Lords of Hell so that neither can claim it without starting a war, and fed the person who killed his ex-girlfriend LSD and locked him in a box with her defrosting, lightly-rotted corpse... I just didn't get that "magnificent bastard" feeling from the movie.
No, Richard Dawkins has a dogma.
Quite a few of us think he's a jackass. Don't pin him on all of us, and we won't judge you by Jerry Falwell.
A faithful adaptation from the comic, you say?
Considering Ledger could act (ever seen "10 Things I Hate About You"?), I always thought those howls were... well, "they mightn't be wrong, but he's worth the benefit of the doubt" was one of my reactions.
He wasn't blond, Cockney, London was never mentioned (yes, Constantine has operated elsewhere, but it's always been obvious London's his home turf), and they turned the character who [SPOILER SPOILER DANGER WILL ROBINSON] tricked the archangel Gabriel into Falling, then took his wings off with a chainsaw and left him on the streets into a repentant Christian.
Just... no.
You might get going faster, but you'll have a lot more lumps and bruises from face-planting yourself.
One of the advantages of doing it with space stations first is that ubiquitous SF plot device, the escape module. If something goes drastically wrong on the ISS, they pile into a Soyuz, blow clamps, and come home.
If something goes drastically wrong on Mars, they... die like rats. That would be about it, yes?
Every mention of this plan I've come across in the press has essentially been "seed ocean with iron, algae, carbon sequestered, profit", with the occasional "squeeze biodiesel from algae" added step in there somewhere.
Not one discussion so far has brought the problems; the fact that the yearly algal bloom in the Gulf of Mexico is what causes the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, for instance.
Aer Lingus has turned shit, yes - but you get marginally more legroom, still, and they aren't out to gouge you quite as hard. It's the difference between 5 turns of the thumbscrew and 4, I know, but it's still just that tiny bit nicer... plus it's not giving money to that tosser O'Leary, which is a bonus.
But then you'd have to figure out how to prevent them getting buried in deposition, which is just difficult.