i believe the article said we had been spraying for about a decade. and not only that, but we've been spraying like mad.
sounds to me like it's pretty possible. with the amount of spraying, nothing else can grow, giving the resistant plants the resources/nutrients to spread more easily.
i agree that the selective breeding by the farmers helped, but i also think this could have happened naturally.
your parent is wrong. they could have, and does, happen naturally. i may not be a biologist, although i do have a degree in ecology and evolutionary bio. i know that this is how evolution works. survival of the fittest. some strain lived, and based on the way they distribute and continue to grow the plants there, they spread more quickly than the natural time.
the article also specifically states that this is scientifically possible.
one reason to vote for the other candidate is to remove someone for office. change is a good thing. i am not obligated to vote for someone because i like him.
how about this one...
kerry said he will not amend the constitution with something that removes rights from the states, keeping the government less centralized.
that doesn't reference bush, sure it's the opposite of what bush would do, but i don't think the constitution should be touched. and yes, discrimination is the gay marriage thing. why should only heterosexuals get the benefits of being married?
i just read the article and at no point did i read that dogs will not smell the coca leaf. also, what's the point in dogs smelling just for cocaine and not the leaves? i bet the leaves are more smuggled within colombia than the product itself.
the signs i am referring to are signs posted in neighborhoods to deter burglars and car thieves. they're harmless signs saying that hte people in the neighborhood are watching out for each other. they sometimes include the phone number for the police department. they have nothing to do with "big brother".
for the record, i'm anti-patriot act. i just don't like conspiracy theorists who think that everything's gonna go wrong because of one little thing. those signs are harmless. they say nothing but "don't fuck with these people, they're watching you". the "these people" being the people htat live in the neighborhood.
due to bush policies, there are over 1000 dead american soldiers from the war in iraq. this does not include the dead civilians who are over there rebuilding what we single-handedly destroyed without the backing of any other major world power, with the only exception of england (and poland, don't forget poland).
due to bush policies, the majority of the middle east continues to hate the united states, perhaps more than before.
due to bush policies, osama bin laden is still alive and kicking, probably planning another large scale attack on the united states, which will, no doubt, be carried through successfully.
due to bush policies, every american that died for the freedoms this country stands for died in vain as those freedoms are being slowly, but surely, taken away.
due to bush policies, iraq may soon have their first free elections... which will almost certainly be riddled with attacks on the "free" people attempting to vote for their new leader, assuming he isn't killed, which has happened already. this also doesn't include the possibility of the most heinous form of death given to the contractors helping out the newly "freed" iraqis.
130,000 votes is still less than the number of provisional and overseas ballots that have yet to be counted. the republican secretary of state in ohio said on cnn that no one should concede defeat until all those votes have been counted (a possibly 300,000 additional votes). it has also been said that a good majority of those votes are in favor of kerry.
i have a feeling the main reason kerry conceded was that either he was bullied (unlikely) or they don't want to wait the 11 days for a decision (more likely, as the guy from ohio also mentioned that hey won't count those votes until 11 days after the election).
it's most likely that bush won, but there is a slight possibility that in some of those states that are very close, counting the extra ballots could make a difference. in which case, who is president if kerry actually won the electoral vote now that he's conceded?
because these signs are a major reminder of 1984. i see these signs EVERYWHERE. i live in providence, they are literally posted in every neighborhood. some are so faded and beat up that they have been there since long before 9/11 and the patriot act. i remember seeing them 15 years ago when we weren't worried about any of this stuff. the conspiracy theorists here are truly amazing.
i still don't think i understand your second reason. you made it more confusing. the candidates don't give a crap about the small population areas. they only need to win in a handful of states to win the election. granted of the handful, half tend to go one way and the other half tend to go the other way. with the electoral college, it's still jsut as easy to only pay attention to the largely populated areas. candidates don't campaign in montana or wyoming. they spend their time in the so-called swing states and the ones with more electoral votes. so even with your argument for the electoral college, my state (RI) isn't important to them with only 4 votes. so instead of just campaigning in large cities (NYC, LA, chicago, etc), they just campaign in states with large populations. that's only slightly better, although you can easily get a majority in NY state by getting all of the NYC metro area to vote one way and the entire rest of the state to go the other. doesn't work if you ask me.
i agree that the electoral college helps even out the voting power of each state, but it still isn't fool proof (as proved above). they need to give out the votes on a percentage basis in order to make it truly fair (this is done in a few states, but none that really matter, like florida or PA or ohio). according to the democratic senators that i have written to in support of (or against) certain bills, they want to keep certain powers in the hands of the states (again, see the gay-marriage ban). i disagree on kerry's policies making bigger federal gov't, given bush's history of doing just that.
the first reason is archaic. that makes sense for the days when things travelled by horse, but that's not necessary anymore.
your second reason is a bit odd. does california really have over half the population of the country? i find that hard to believe. in fact this proves otherwise. and don't say you were just making a point.
and your third (and supposedly most important) is a simple attack on the democrats, which you, obviously, are not. do you realize that george bush is making the federal government stronger than ever? homeland security, the patriot act, his proposed amendment to the FEDERAL constitution banning gay marriage (an issue that is traditionally left to the states to decide on and isn't even addressed in the constitution). also, you say that we need equal voting power in each state, but you're wrong there as well. we don't have that with the electoral college. it gives more voting power to big states and the smaller states that no one gives 2 shits about don't matter (such as your example of RI, where i happen to live). my vote here doesn't matter. i'm going to vote anyways, but RI will elect kerry, but the 4 electoral votes we get won't affect the outcome. so it looks like you're wrong there as well. your argument is weak. with the electoral college, you just need to win in a handful of states. it doesn't matter if you win the popular vote in that state by a margin of 2 votes either. maybe the electoral system worked 200 years ago when it was created, but in the modern united states, it doesn't work, at least not the way the electoral votes are handed out in every state.
windows xp will recognize and auto-install almost all hardware now except very new stuff. linux will not. hell, a standard installation of linux won't even necessarily find some relatively common network cards.
most people who buy newpapers throw them out. those that recycle generally do it through their town or throw it in a recycling bin at a college or office building or something. so any recycling costs are covered by the company or taxes.
but newspapers are generally not expensive, while cd's and movies are (in comparison to what it costs to make them).
funny you mention that... shortly before dvd's became real mainstream, we were walking around target or walmart or something and one thing caught my attention. some vhs movies came with 2 tapes, one with the movie, the other with "special features" (american beauty was like this). those sold at the same price as regular 1-tape videos (about $15). you buy a cd with 2 discs and depending on the store and album, it'll cost you anywhere from $20-30, nearly twice the cost of a single disc album. what's up with that? my friend replied "the mpaa is only slightly better than the riaa".
there's no lawsuits regarding speed because no lawyer will take it because of the disclaimer.
and i do work in tech support and hear the students calling and complaining all the time, even though it's the same ones that have virus loaded computers that call while they're taking down the network. nevermind the email i got from a boyfriend who goes to a different school complaining about his girlfriend's speed at our school. idiot.
but if you notice, there is no guarantee on the speeds for any ISP. and there is always a disclaimer. that's for people that are far from the CO or with older wiring.
with the cost of gas as high as it is, you've probably already paid for the distiller already by saving yourself a trip to costco. also, how much electricity does it use? you may have already paid for the water as well. and your environmental impact is less, which is more "pay".
it'll take less time than you think to make it more cost-effective.
this is great except when everyone upgrades their AIM and gets all the spyware that comes bundled with that. or installs some other free software and gets spyware with that. and if people don't like their popups being blocked, they'll get that turned off and get spyware that way as well. sorry to say, but firefox alone can't do it. it's also not easy to get 2000 people to switch from IE to firefox and be happy about it. won't happen. sorry.
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i believe the article said we had been spraying for about a decade. and not only that, but we've been spraying like mad.
sounds to me like it's pretty possible. with the amount of spraying, nothing else can grow, giving the resistant plants the resources/nutrients to spread more easily.
i agree that the selective breeding by the farmers helped, but i also think this could have happened naturally.
your parent is wrong. they could have, and does, happen naturally. i may not be a biologist, although i do have a degree in ecology and evolutionary bio. i know that this is how evolution works. survival of the fittest. some strain lived, and based on the way they distribute and continue to grow the plants there, they spread more quickly than the natural time.
the article also specifically states that this is scientifically possible.
one reason to vote for the other candidate is to remove someone for office. change is a good thing. i am not obligated to vote for someone because i like him.
how about this one...
kerry said he will not amend the constitution with something that removes rights from the states, keeping the government less centralized.
that doesn't reference bush, sure it's the opposite of what bush would do, but i don't think the constitution should be touched. and yes, discrimination is the gay marriage thing. why should only heterosexuals get the benefits of being married?
i just read the article and at no point did i read that dogs will not smell the coca leaf. also, what's the point in dogs smelling just for cocaine and not the leaves? i bet the leaves are more smuggled within colombia than the product itself.
kerry doesn't support writing discrimination into the constitution. i think that's a big enough reason to write out all of yours.
kerry doesn't treat the south with disdain as his running mate is from north carolina.
kerry supports increased education spending and reduced military spending.
the signs i am referring to are signs posted in neighborhoods to deter burglars and car thieves. they're harmless signs saying that hte people in the neighborhood are watching out for each other. they sometimes include the phone number for the police department. they have nothing to do with "big brother".
for the record, i'm anti-patriot act. i just don't like conspiracy theorists who think that everything's gonna go wrong because of one little thing. those signs are harmless. they say nothing but "don't fuck with these people, they're watching you". the "these people" being the people htat live in the neighborhood.
due to bush policies, there are over 1000 dead american soldiers from the war in iraq. this does not include the dead civilians who are over there rebuilding what we single-handedly destroyed without the backing of any other major world power, with the only exception of england (and poland, don't forget poland).
due to bush policies, the majority of the middle east continues to hate the united states, perhaps more than before.
due to bush policies, osama bin laden is still alive and kicking, probably planning another large scale attack on the united states, which will, no doubt, be carried through successfully.
due to bush policies, every american that died for the freedoms this country stands for died in vain as those freedoms are being slowly, but surely, taken away.
due to bush policies, iraq may soon have their first free elections... which will almost certainly be riddled with attacks on the "free" people attempting to vote for their new leader, assuming he isn't killed, which has happened already. this also doesn't include the possibility of the most heinous form of death given to the contractors helping out the newly "freed" iraqis.
i think the answer is pretty damn clear.
130,000 votes is still less than the number of provisional and overseas ballots that have yet to be counted. the republican secretary of state in ohio said on cnn that no one should concede defeat until all those votes have been counted (a possibly 300,000 additional votes). it has also been said that a good majority of those votes are in favor of kerry.
i have a feeling the main reason kerry conceded was that either he was bullied (unlikely) or they don't want to wait the 11 days for a decision (more likely, as the guy from ohio also mentioned that hey won't count those votes until 11 days after the election).
it's most likely that bush won, but there is a slight possibility that in some of those states that are very close, counting the extra ballots could make a difference. in which case, who is president if kerry actually won the electoral vote now that he's conceded?
because these signs are a major reminder of 1984. i see these signs EVERYWHERE. i live in providence, they are literally posted in every neighborhood. some are so faded and beat up that they have been there since long before 9/11 and the patriot act. i remember seeing them 15 years ago when we weren't worried about any of this stuff. the conspiracy theorists here are truly amazing.
timothy mcveigh was pretty clean cut from what i recall. in fact, his hair was pretty closely shaven as he was a military sort of guy.
and look at all those "unix gurus"... are they terrorists? probably, they don't like microsoft.
i still don't think i understand your second reason. you made it more confusing. the candidates don't give a crap about the small population areas. they only need to win in a handful of states to win the election. granted of the handful, half tend to go one way and the other half tend to go the other way. with the electoral college, it's still jsut as easy to only pay attention to the largely populated areas. candidates don't campaign in montana or wyoming. they spend their time in the so-called swing states and the ones with more electoral votes. so even with your argument for the electoral college, my state (RI) isn't important to them with only 4 votes. so instead of just campaigning in large cities (NYC, LA, chicago, etc), they just campaign in states with large populations. that's only slightly better, although you can easily get a majority in NY state by getting all of the NYC metro area to vote one way and the entire rest of the state to go the other. doesn't work if you ask me.
i agree that the electoral college helps even out the voting power of each state, but it still isn't fool proof (as proved above). they need to give out the votes on a percentage basis in order to make it truly fair (this is done in a few states, but none that really matter, like florida or PA or ohio). according to the democratic senators that i have written to in support of (or against) certain bills, they want to keep certain powers in the hands of the states (again, see the gay-marriage ban). i disagree on kerry's policies making bigger federal gov't, given bush's history of doing just that.
as a matter of fact, i do.
the first reason is archaic. that makes sense for the days when things travelled by horse, but that's not necessary anymore.
your second reason is a bit odd. does california really have over half the population of the country? i find that hard to believe. in fact this proves otherwise. and don't say you were just making a point.
and your third (and supposedly most important) is a simple attack on the democrats, which you, obviously, are not. do you realize that george bush is making the federal government stronger than ever? homeland security, the patriot act, his proposed amendment to the FEDERAL constitution banning gay marriage (an issue that is traditionally left to the states to decide on and isn't even addressed in the constitution). also, you say that we need equal voting power in each state, but you're wrong there as well. we don't have that with the electoral college. it gives more voting power to big states and the smaller states that no one gives 2 shits about don't matter (such as your example of RI, where i happen to live). my vote here doesn't matter. i'm going to vote anyways, but RI will elect kerry, but the 4 electoral votes we get won't affect the outcome. so it looks like you're wrong there as well. your argument is weak. with the electoral college, you just need to win in a handful of states. it doesn't matter if you win the popular vote in that state by a margin of 2 votes either. maybe the electoral system worked 200 years ago when it was created, but in the modern united states, it doesn't work, at least not the way the electoral votes are handed out in every state.
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i live in providence. just moved from nort providence (h purposely left out).
win2k is what i use at home, it's more stable than XP, but i use XP pro at work and it's not bad. XP home is a piece of crap.
what's wrong with that? i'm both those things, but i found the article highly amusing... and yes, i was nursed on a TTY.
windows xp will recognize and auto-install almost all hardware now except very new stuff. linux will not. hell, a standard installation of linux won't even necessarily find some relatively common network cards.
windows is easier, hands down.
you're obviously not from RI... it's paWtucket
most people who buy newpapers throw them out. those that recycle generally do it through their town or throw it in a recycling bin at a college or office building or something. so any recycling costs are covered by the company or taxes.
but newspapers are generally not expensive, while cd's and movies are (in comparison to what it costs to make them).
funny you mention that... shortly before dvd's became real mainstream, we were walking around target or walmart or something and one thing caught my attention. some vhs movies came with 2 tapes, one with the movie, the other with "special features" (american beauty was like this). those sold at the same price as regular 1-tape videos (about $15). you buy a cd with 2 discs and depending on the store and album, it'll cost you anywhere from $20-30, nearly twice the cost of a single disc album. what's up with that? my friend replied "the mpaa is only slightly better than the riaa".
and the fiber to the hope that verizon is offering is a residential service, which will has a disclaimer.
we're not talking about commercial services here, we're talking residential, completely different.
there's no lawsuits regarding speed because no lawyer will take it because of the disclaimer.
and i do work in tech support and hear the students calling and complaining all the time, even though it's the same ones that have virus loaded computers that call while they're taking down the network. nevermind the email i got from a boyfriend who goes to a different school complaining about his girlfriend's speed at our school. idiot.
but if you notice, there is no guarantee on the speeds for any ISP. and there is always a disclaimer. that's for people that are far from the CO or with older wiring.
with the cost of gas as high as it is, you've probably already paid for the distiller already by saving yourself a trip to costco. also, how much electricity does it use? you may have already paid for the water as well. and your environmental impact is less, which is more "pay".
it'll take less time than you think to make it more cost-effective.
i bet it only found a few more than 6... it find cookies that don't actively do anything to your computer unless you go back to those sites.
this is great except when everyone upgrades their AIM and gets all the spyware that comes bundled with that. or installs some other free software and gets spyware with that. and if people don't like their popups being blocked, they'll get that turned off and get spyware that way as well. sorry to say, but firefox alone can't do it. it's also not easy to get 2000 people to switch from IE to firefox and be happy about it. won't happen. sorry.