My question was about the viability of bio-diesel in general. It appears that Greenpeace does use bio-diesel in a number of their other vehicles, but perhaps it is not a viable option for their ships. They're not exactly rolling in cash or anything. Either way, they are still doing SOMETHING, which is better than what 99% of the rest of the world is doing about the problem.
It's sad that we have apparently become an "all or nothing", "with us or against us" society. If someone says they're opposed to eating meat, but still eat shellfish, instead of commending them on making a worthwhile effort, we call them a hypocrite and discount them entirely. Picking out some minor "hypocrisy" to shoot down your opponent might be effective in politics when the average voter has no more than a high school education, but those of us that can actually think logically know better.
Is biodiesel better for the environment? It would take millions of acres of farms to produce enough to replace oil and so instead of burning fossil fuels, we've destroyed every last inch of forest.
I love how everyone is willing to cry "hypocrisy" the minute someone doesn't 100% practice what they preach. It's called practicality and the greater good. There are certain evils they are willing to accept in order to achieve their goals. Sure, they could completely abandon anything and everything which harms the environment, but then they'd be sitting in the woods alone all day and could not have any impact on society. Instead, they've decided that having one more diesel powered boat is a lot better than having billions of tons of trash and oil dumped into the ocean.
About 100,000 results from.uk use "couldn't care less" or "could not care less"; and 44,000 use "could care less," so it looks like things aren't much better over there either. Although, it does appear the phrase "I couldn't care less" originated in England, and then twenty years later the US bastardized it. So it appears we spread our ignorance back to you.
Please note that my comments were mostly facetious; I know why the pyramids in Egypt are referred more often than others. Perhaps a few slashdotters learned something by my reference some of the lesser known ones (at least among the general public). My comments had nothing to do with racism, and maybe more to do with the fact that only that up until very recently schools pretty much taught kids that American Indians were no more than nomads with no concept of civiliations and that might be a good reason why such accomplishments of their as building very large pyramids are lesser known.
This may be walking the tightrope of "fair usage", but that's the reality of how people I know are using this sort of service.
It's more a licensing issue than fair use. I'm sure you expressly agreed to not do something along the lines of copying it when you rented it, so it doesn't matter if there is fair use, you've breached your contract with them.
And I also here they have these strange, pictureless things made out of very thin strips of wood with some type of text printed on them.:P
Paper is not "thin strips of wood," it's "wood chopped into very tiny pieces glued back together in a flat sheet," which sometimes might have cotton or other fiber as a secondary ingredient.
Why do they always compare to the pyramids in Egypt? While they might be the most famous, they're not the largest. Cholula, Teotihuacan and Cahokia are much larger in size and volume than anything in Egypt.
Do people just have a hard time admitting that the people who inhabited the Americas before Europeans showed up might have actually not be inferior? Perhaps it's just more comfortable to imagine them as haphazard small groups of primitive people running around in the forest than to realize they had just as advanced civilizations and cities as Europe, but mostly difference in appearance. And that their technology, while it took a different path, wasn't necessarily "inferior" at all?/rant
Amateur archaeologists tend to good and bad in some ways. Sometimes they'll uncover stuff that might not ever have been found otherwise. At the same time, they'll fail to understand the significance of it, completely destroy something more valuable in the process or fail to provide anyway for other archaeologists to review their work by not actually bothering to keep track of what they did and where they found anything.
urgent care medical clinics that are legally forced (and morally obligated) to provide free health care to the indigent, especially illegal aliens
They're only required to provide "life-saving" care, or at least care enough to bring the patient to a stable state. Once you're not in risk of dying, they can kick you out the door.
I was confused by it. IE apparently is mentally challenged, but very busy. Safari is bored (maybe no one is using it?), and apparently Firefox is really just a reflection by 99% of its users (willing to complain about IE, but not willing to do anything of their own to fix the problem). Who wants a browser that sleeps all day and whines at IE?
A better take on the same idea would be to display all of the icons at the same time, IE can go "whee" but keeps running into stuff and getting disoriented and diseased and then dies. Safari can be bored if it wants to, and Firefox should look like it actually getting something done.
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence." U.S. Const. Art. IV Sect. 4.
Is that the section you're referring to? Sounds to me like only Congress can protect against "domestic Violence," and it certainly doesn't say anything about those involved not being allowed their rights.
While the President might want to call U.S. citizens who support terrorism "Enemy combatants," isn't traitor a more fitting word? Therefore, they ought to be tried for treason, which is also covered by the Constitution:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted." U.S. Const. Art. III Sect. 3.
Again, while Congress can set punishments, there is even a minimum evidentiary requirement to be convicted of Treason, and no mention of the ability to treat people who would otherwise be guaranteed all of the protections under the Constitution as if they were not citizens of this country.
The United States should not be championing democracy and freedom around the world if it isn't willing to extend its own guarantees of rights to cover those who are opposed to it.
I know what mu is, I was just pointing out that the client prides itself on being very small and therefore the mu is used to denote "micro" rather than the letter itself. At any rate, I refer to it as "you-torrent," and I pronounce mu, "myoo".
It's okay, the code is merely dicta and not binding authority. No need to get your panties all twisted up about it.
Besides, it probably took all of 5 minutes for him to do it. A few days ago there was an article about people wasting insane amounts of time at work on the Internet. Most judges would be lucky to have 5 minutes a day to do something not work related.
as we are all required to carry a state ID already.
You are only required to carry a driver's license if you are driving a car. Otherwise, there is no legal requirement to carry ID. Even in the case of a driver's license you usually will have 24-48 hours to produce it to the police upon request.
"TM" carries some legal weight, in that they are putting the world on notice that they claim that to be a trademark. To qualify for registration something has to be used in interstate commerce and meet other requirements as well, which they might not have yet done. Almost every registered mark is first used prior to registration. Once it's used, you can then register it.
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My question was about the viability of bio-diesel in general. It appears that Greenpeace does use bio-diesel in a number of their other vehicles, but perhaps it is not a viable option for their ships. They're not exactly rolling in cash or anything. Either way, they are still doing SOMETHING, which is better than what 99% of the rest of the world is doing about the problem.
It's sad that we have apparently become an "all or nothing", "with us or against us" society. If someone says they're opposed to eating meat, but still eat shellfish, instead of commending them on making a worthwhile effort, we call them a hypocrite and discount them entirely. Picking out some minor "hypocrisy" to shoot down your opponent might be effective in politics when the average voter has no more than a high school education, but those of us that can actually think logically know better.
Is biodiesel better for the environment? It would take millions of acres of farms to produce enough to replace oil and so instead of burning fossil fuels, we've destroyed every last inch of forest.
I love how everyone is willing to cry "hypocrisy" the minute someone doesn't 100% practice what they preach. It's called practicality and the greater good. There are certain evils they are willing to accept in order to achieve their goals. Sure, they could completely abandon anything and everything which harms the environment, but then they'd be sitting in the woods alone all day and could not have any impact on society. Instead, they've decided that having one more diesel powered boat is a lot better than having billions of tons of trash and oil dumped into the ocean.
About 100,000 results from .uk use "couldn't care less" or "could not care less"; and 44,000 use "could care less," so it looks like things aren't much better over there either. Although, it does appear the phrase "I couldn't care less" originated in England, and then twenty years later the US bastardized it. So it appears we spread our ignorance back to you.
But no, you are right, it must be racism.
Please note that my comments were mostly facetious; I know why the pyramids in Egypt are referred more often than others. Perhaps a few slashdotters learned something by my reference some of the lesser known ones (at least among the general public). My comments had nothing to do with racism, and maybe more to do with the fact that only that up until very recently schools pretty much taught kids that American Indians were no more than nomads with no concept of civiliations and that might be a good reason why such accomplishments of their as building very large pyramids are lesser known.
This may be walking the tightrope of "fair usage", but that's the reality of how people I know are using this sort of service.
It's more a licensing issue than fair use. I'm sure you expressly agreed to not do something along the lines of copying it when you rented it, so it doesn't matter if there is fair use, you've breached your contract with them.
And I also here they have these strange, pictureless things made out of very thin strips of wood with some type of text printed on them. :P
Paper is not "thin strips of wood," it's "wood chopped into very tiny pieces glued back together in a flat sheet," which sometimes might have cotton or other fiber as a secondary ingredient.
Why do they always compare to the pyramids in Egypt? While they might be the most famous, they're not the largest. Cholula, Teotihuacan and Cahokia are much larger in size and volume than anything in Egypt.
/rant
Do people just have a hard time admitting that the people who inhabited the Americas before Europeans showed up might have actually not be inferior? Perhaps it's just more comfortable to imagine them as haphazard small groups of primitive people running around in the forest than to realize they had just as advanced civilizations and cities as Europe, but mostly difference in appearance. And that their technology, while it took a different path, wasn't necessarily "inferior" at all?
Amateur archaeologists tend to good and bad in some ways. Sometimes they'll uncover stuff that might not ever have been found otherwise. At the same time, they'll fail to understand the significance of it, completely destroy something more valuable in the process or fail to provide anyway for other archaeologists to review their work by not actually bothering to keep track of what they did and where they found anything.
urgent care medical clinics that are legally forced (and morally obligated) to
provide free health care to the indigent, especially illegal aliens
They're only required to provide "life-saving" care, or at least care enough to bring the patient to a stable state. Once you're not in risk of dying, they can kick you out the door.
I'm sorry, but "Bistbuy" is not a "typo," it's a horrible and awful misspelling that a 3 year old wouldn't make.
I was confused by it. IE apparently is mentally challenged, but very busy. Safari is bored (maybe no one is using it?), and apparently Firefox is really just a reflection by 99% of its users (willing to complain about IE, but not willing to do anything of their own to fix the problem). Who wants a browser that sleeps all day and whines at IE?
A better take on the same idea would be to display all of the icons at the same time, IE can go "whee" but keeps running into stuff and getting disoriented and diseased and then dies. Safari can be bored if it wants to, and Firefox should look like it actually getting something done.
He flew before and after becoming a politican.
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence." U.S. Const. Art. IV Sect. 4.
Is that the section you're referring to? Sounds to me like only Congress can protect against "domestic Violence," and it certainly doesn't say anything about those involved not being allowed their rights.
While the President might want to call U.S. citizens who support terrorism "Enemy combatants," isn't traitor a more fitting word? Therefore, they ought to be tried for treason, which is also covered by the Constitution:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted." U.S. Const. Art. III Sect. 3.
Again, while Congress can set punishments, there is even a minimum evidentiary requirement to be convicted of Treason, and no mention of the ability to treat people who would otherwise be guaranteed all of the protections under the Constitution as if they were not citizens of this country.
The United States should not be championing democracy and freedom around the world if it isn't willing to extend its own guarantees of rights to cover those who are opposed to it.
facetious
adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.
There is no box on the security clearance forms used in the US for sexual preference, so I doubt it would come up.
I know what mu is, I was just pointing out that the client prides itself on being very small and therefore the mu is used to denote "micro" rather than the letter itself. At any rate, I refer to it as "you-torrent," and I pronounce mu, "myoo".
I always thought it was pronounced "micro-torrent."
explicitly preempts state regulation of access charges
The state telling companies what they can charge is not a tax on Internet access.
Wal-mart doesn't sell stuff for cheap, they sell cheap stuff. That's the problem.
"4. You give Walmart employees better health benefits".
I already do, every time my employer takes Medicare/Medicaid money out of my paycheck.
POV fork pages are definitely against Wikipedia policy. Editors just need to stand up for it.
It's okay, the code is merely dicta and not binding authority. No need to get your panties all twisted up about it.
Besides, it probably took all of 5 minutes for him to do it. A few days ago there was an article about people wasting insane amounts of time at work on the Internet. Most judges would be lucky to have 5 minutes a day to do something not work related.
as we are all required to carry a state ID already.
You are only required to carry a driver's license if you are driving a car. Otherwise, there is no legal requirement to carry ID. Even in the case of a driver's license you usually will have 24-48 hours to produce it to the police upon request.
"TM" carries some legal weight, in that they are putting the world on notice that they claim that to be a trademark. To qualify for registration something has to be used in interstate commerce and meet other requirements as well, which they might not have yet done. Almost every registered mark is first used prior to registration. Once it's used, you can then register it.