I thought it most irregular that our loan broker tried to get us to exaggerate our income and minimize (lie) about our expenses, which he said could get us a lower interest rate.
That's why they buy the laws, it keeps things profitable. We can't expect anyone ambitious to help out unless they can win and everyone else loses now, can we?
Ambition is the root of the problem. If society understood this, laws could be written to prevent the destruction of the commons, and actual sustainability could be implemented. The system is bent to suit the wants/needs of the worst of the greedy motherfuckers so it doesn't work for anyone else at this time.
History tells me that the survivors are the ones who escape into the bush while everyone else defends what's theirs. Globalization is screwing this option in the ass.
I do not believe that the Welfare Queens (The Federal Reserve and their cronies) are entitled, as you say. I think that I, on the other hand, as an American Citizen, am entitled to my share of all the "quantitative easing" that occurs in my lifetime, as every other man, woman, and child who can claim ownership of my government is as well. Every time the economy "expands", I expect a credit to my account or a check in my mail. The "Gold Standard" candidate has my vote, only because he recognises the criminality of the system all the rest of you are supporting, but no one is addressing the fact that the system is built to fail.
I thought Glyphosate was one of the more popular herbicides; my bad. I would never use RoundUp, anyways, since it comes from Monsanto. It is not necessarily among the most egregious of their products and practices. It's pretty fucking hard to boycott their seeds, BTW, as they have taken a rather aggressive market position. Wild fucking Canola is pretty fucking persistent in my environment, perhaps you have been misinformed? Maybe they have moved their terminator gene patent to their transgenic canola product line, I missed the memo. Okay, I read your link, and I think when they said
if the volunteers were carefully managed in the first year following the canola crop.
you blinked, or something. Or perhaps you have not ever carefully managed "volunteers" (oft-times referred to as weeds.)
Contact your US senator and House members. It won't do any good, but it is very easy to do.
Au contraire, mon frere; if your local constituent services rep,is half the ball of fire mine is, you should get results Nothing lights a fire under the drones like an actual threat to expose their sham of "service". I mention the appropriate regulatory agency early in my calls to any sort of service person and it beats all hell out of trying to go up to supervisors, &c. If threats don't do it, then a friendly inquiry from the office of the local congressman seems to settle matters nicely. They are following the path of least resistance. You've got to make doing their job correctly look like a good option.
My songwriters are working day and night to write every song. When we finish, y'all better start sending fat checks, or else you're in a heap o'trouble.
I've spent some time with cows, and the thing they seem most skilled at is eating, so yeah I think somehow they can indeed tell the difference. I also much prefer the flavor of heirloom variety produce from our organic farm to that Monsanto flavored dreck that all you poor folks get from the supermarkets. YMMV
Fortunately, my people were able to emigrate to Kentucky and duke it out with the less barbaric locals, so we didn't starve. Less opportunity this time around, they might get to join the underclass.
I just go and remove nytimes.com cookies when that happens, you get some random # of views before they get to that; ten I think, except if you link from google they don't count 'em.
Climate Change is what it is. Simple people are confused because they aren't used to interesting thoughts. Interesting times indeed. I expect to adapt, but could be overwhelmed by the cretins, again. I dusted off my bicycle and bought land where the modeling predicts that fresh potable water will still exist. We didn't predict that the engineers driving the locomotive off the end of the track were going to lay the last spur through our yard, but we do hope to stop it. (Sad, cynical chuckle.)
I didn't RTFA, and probably won't, as my biases lead me to believe that it is Academiturfing in conjunction with the scheme to frack up the last aquifers on this planet. (I'm pretty sure Newt sees this coming, and why he's anxious to colonise more hospitable planets, like Mars.) I'm not at all pleased with the push to pump bitumen down (Probably through my property) a pipe by the Skeena, to ship to China. Hell, I got that property because I enjoy drinking water, and thought the grandchildren might like to try it as well.
Sorry you didn't like AC's analogy, the first time I saw The Tubes, I was shocked at how they'd stayed under the radar when I knew so many of their tunes.
Reducing humanitiy's living area won't leave anything for other species, as we are one of the most adaptable species in that regard. I don't really give a rat about the BILLIONS who will be displaced by this, but I do fret a bit about the rapid acceleration of the Holocene Extinction Event, at least regarding all those other species.
I used to think that with a different approach, the Fools could be educated and Life on Earth would improve. Then I decided that stupid people resist knowledge, (which has been corroborated recently by some researchers), and I should spend my efforts trying to exist in spite of all their ambition. That has freed a lot of time to work on anti-gravity, free power, and a host of more feasible endeavors.
I am pretty sure the mosquito reference was referring to AK. Every one I've met who's been to AK asserts they've far exceeded my one-time MN experience. Personally, I think some areas should be left for migratory waterfowl and such. Grizzlies and cold I can deal with, I not manly enough to face midges and mosquitoes. I am soon moving a bit north to where the cucarachas are smaller, in order to enjoy a better life.
I am often wondering how many of these data accumulator companies are sockpuppets for our Fearless Leader's Henchmen, as they seem to be maintaining their immunity to intrusive laws. As Guantanamo allows extralegal treatment of persons exempted from our "Rights", so too do these sites aggregate a lot of the information that our Public Servants are rightly forbidden to collect on their own.
If the Bismarck or (particularly) the Yamato had been protected by air support, the outcomes might have been delayed. The Yamato was the mightiest battleship ever, sunk from the air.
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I thought it most irregular that our loan broker tried to get us to exaggerate our income and minimize (lie) about our expenses, which he said could get us a lower interest rate.
{chuckle} I have been so telling everyone since the '70s that the Chinese were the ones 'going to eat our lunch.
That's why they buy the laws, it keeps things profitable.
We can't expect anyone ambitious to help out unless they can win and everyone else loses now, can we?
Ambition is the root of the problem. If society understood this, laws could be written to prevent the destruction of the commons, and actual sustainability could be implemented. The system is bent to suit the wants/needs of the worst of the greedy motherfuckers so it doesn't work for anyone else at this time.
History tells me that the survivors are the ones who escape into the bush while everyone else defends what's theirs.
Globalization is screwing this option in the ass.
I do not believe that the Welfare Queens (The Federal Reserve and their cronies) are entitled, as you say. I think that I, on the other hand, as an American Citizen, am entitled to my share of all the "quantitative easing" that occurs in my lifetime, as every other man, woman, and child who can claim ownership of my government is as well.
Every time the economy "expands", I expect a credit to my account or a check in my mail.
The "Gold Standard" candidate has my vote, only because he recognises the criminality of the system all the rest of you are supporting, but no one is addressing the fact that the system is built to fail.
I thought Glyphosate was one of the more popular herbicides; my bad.
I would never use RoundUp, anyways, since it comes from Monsanto. It is not necessarily among the most egregious of their products and practices. It's pretty fucking hard to boycott their seeds, BTW, as they have taken a rather aggressive market position.
Wild fucking Canola is pretty fucking persistent in my environment, perhaps you have been misinformed?
Maybe they have moved their terminator gene patent to their transgenic canola product line, I missed the memo.
Okay, I read your link, and I think when they said
if the volunteers were carefully managed in the first year following the canola crop.
you blinked, or something. Or perhaps you have not ever carefully managed "volunteers" (oft-times referred to as weeds.)
Contact your US senator and House members. It won't do any good, but it is very easy to do.
Au contraire, mon frere; if your local constituent services rep,is half the ball of fire mine is, you should get results Nothing lights a fire under the drones like an actual threat to expose their sham of "service". I mention the appropriate regulatory agency early in my calls to any sort of service person and it beats all hell out of trying to go up to supervisors, &c. If threats don't do it, then a friendly inquiry from the office of the local congressman seems to settle matters nicely. They are following the path of least resistance. You've got to make doing their job correctly look like a good option.
I will forever hold a grudge against them for roundup-ready canola. What kind of asshole invents an herbicide-resistant invasive weed?.
My songwriters are working day and night to write every song. When we finish, y'all better start sending fat checks, or else you're in a heap o'trouble.
because there is always someone willing to take your place for longer hours and less pay.
This is a constructed reality. Full employment would be a natural consequence of an unmoneyed society.
I've spent some time with cows, and the thing they seem most skilled at is eating, so yeah I think somehow they can indeed tell the difference. I also much prefer the flavor of heirloom variety produce from our organic farm to that Monsanto flavored dreck that all you poor folks get from the supermarkets. YMMV
Fortunately, my people were able to emigrate to Kentucky and duke it out with the less barbaric locals, so we didn't starve. Less opportunity this time around, they might get to join the underclass.
All of the farmers I know are less than desirous of having Monsanto's genes contaminate their property. This is not a new issue.
I just go and remove nytimes.com cookies when that happens, you get some random # of views before they get to that; ten I think, except if you link from google they don't count 'em.
NewsCrap bought Dow-Jones? I'd noticed a total loss of integrity in their stories and this fits right in. 2007, yep.
Game over, methinks.
Climate Change is what it is. Simple people are confused because they aren't used to interesting thoughts. Interesting times indeed. I expect to adapt, but could be overwhelmed by the cretins, again.
I dusted off my bicycle and bought land where the modeling predicts that fresh potable water will still exist. We didn't predict that the engineers driving the locomotive off the end of the track were going to lay the last spur through our yard, but we do hope to stop it. (Sad, cynical chuckle.)
I didn't RTFA, and probably won't, as my biases lead me to believe that it is Academiturfing in conjunction with the scheme to frack up the last aquifers on this planet. (I'm pretty sure Newt sees this coming, and why he's anxious to colonise more hospitable planets, like Mars.) I'm not at all pleased with the push to pump bitumen down (Probably through my property) a pipe by the Skeena, to ship to China. Hell, I got that property because I enjoy drinking water, and thought the grandchildren might like to try it as well.
Sorry you didn't like AC's analogy, the first time I saw The Tubes, I was shocked at how they'd stayed under the radar when I knew so many of their tunes.
Reducing humanitiy's living area won't leave anything for other species, as we are one of the most adaptable species in that regard. I don't really give a rat about the BILLIONS who will be displaced by this, but I do fret a bit about the rapid acceleration of the Holocene Extinction Event, at least regarding all those other species.
I used to think that with a different approach, the Fools could be educated and Life on Earth would improve. Then I decided that stupid people resist knowledge, (which has been corroborated recently by some researchers), and I should spend my efforts trying to exist in spite of all their ambition. That has freed a lot of time to work on anti-gravity, free power, and a host of more feasible endeavors.
I am pretty sure the mosquito reference was referring to AK. Every one I've met who's been to AK asserts they've far exceeded my one-time MN experience. Personally, I think some areas should be left for migratory waterfowl and such. Grizzlies and cold I can deal with, I not manly enough to face midges and mosquitoes. I am soon moving a bit north to where the cucarachas are smaller, in order to enjoy a better life.
I am often wondering how many of these data accumulator companies are sockpuppets for our Fearless Leader's Henchmen, as they seem to be maintaining their immunity to intrusive laws. As Guantanamo allows extralegal treatment of persons exempted from our "Rights", so too do these sites aggregate a lot of the information that our Public Servants are rightly forbidden to collect on their own.
If the Bismarck or (particularly) the Yamato had been protected by air support, the outcomes might have been delayed. The Yamato was the mightiest battleship ever, sunk from the air.
I seldom visit those sorts of sites, but perhaps my eschewing all the malware vectors excreted by Adobe has been fortuitous?