I burn all my plastic in a nice big pile bellowing lovely black smoke. Saves it ending up in the oceans. I throw away nothing. Job done.
(Actually, I dont, and hate over packaging, and reuse everything I can, but just sayin..) (and BTW, ANYONE who uses nespresso et.al for coffee should NOT be allowed to complain about plastics pollution..)
Actually the primary change was that 'regulators' (by which I assume we can safely read glass bottle suppliers) decided that washed/sterilised glass was no longer 'food safe', and the only way to make it safe was to 'reprocess it' (basically sort it, crush it to a powder, and make new glass from it).
Interestingly, for a while after 9/11, it was a legal requirement for non-US carriers to issue plastic knives/forks to passengers for flights in or crossing US airspace, however it was NOT a requirement for US carriers.. After the rules were dropped, most of the non-US carriers returned to metal, and the US carriers mostly moved to plastic for no reason that is easily identified.
Mostly this is due to massive over-regulation. In the old days it was OK for them to collect, wash, and reuse glass bottles for example.
Then, almost certainly due to lobbying by the glass makers, it was decided that simple industrial washing it hot serializing solutions was just not enough. Somehow a bacterial could survive (ignoring the decades of evidence that they did not) and harm some poor soul! so regulations were put in place to require full 'reprocessing' of glass (in effect crushing, purifying, melting, recasting) to make it 'food safe' again, and THAT killed reuse.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, that is how regulatory capture works, and companies pay WELL for such things to be put in place.
Of course you MAY be talking out your arse by regurgitating a bunch of scaremongering designed to stop you reusing bottles, and therefore spending more and more on them and contributing to the basic problem.
Ah, but it is not controlled, and more importantly tracked, by the local government (well, it is China, I'm sure they have back door access, but hey).
BTW, WeChat has spread a lot further than China, but not quite as commonly.
It is hard to see how people are thick enough to think that 'cashless society' is an advantage to them. But people are always going out of their way to impress with their stupidity.
While you do go to some effort to take your somewhat on target point too far, let me reply.
The WHOLE point of this is diversion. The people who 'feel good' from the idea of the noble busker getting money are happy. The people who are incensed at the local government putting its effort in to this are up in arms about this payment scheme, therefore diverting them from the things the local government would rather they did not focus on.
So, it is basically a win win for these people. So yes, they consider it important, because it helps them stay in power doing what they want to do (most of which is kept carefully out of public view).
And not to mention that 'climate change' is apparently going to increase rain. Also notice that they dont claim any reduction in water supply, they just want something to point at that it does not magically increase as they take more and more.
Perhaps they need to look up the work 'sustainable' and apply it a little?
I wonder if you realise that much of the rest of the world uses a lower daily calorie total? Pretty much only America follows the '2000' figure. A 'moderately sedentary adult' would probably be more healthy on a bit over 1000 per day average, depending on their size, as they do not need to carry excess body fat to protect them over times of no food, and dont need to sustain large muscle masses for actual work.
I have no idea where you got the potatoes thing from, however it is completely false - potatoes are a VERY poor food source, and no one anywhere has lived on JUST them.. Unless you think a nearly 100% carbo diet works..
Meat is of course the secret, and that is what kept the potato eaters alive.. They DIDNT eat just potatos.. that would have killed them.
Yes, look at the horrible obesity epidemics in the east. Those huge numbers of asians dropping dead from fat related causes. Oh, wait... no, thats the west where rice is less often eaten. Dont worry, as the east gets more western foods, their health is catching up (although down may be a better description)...
White rice is about 90% carbohydrates, 8% protein, and 2% other. Its basically potatoes with free protein.
Can you live on JUST white rice? no (but it would be better than many other vegetables, excepting beans/legumes) But it certainly doesnt have 'little nutritional value' unless you dont count keeping your body fueled.
Yes, I know you are busy jerking your knee thinking it signals your green purity, but it accidentally seems to have ended up in your mouth.
The single limitation on breeder reactors have been anti-proliferation regulations, because they work TOO well. The major limitation on new reactor designs have been a combination of NIMBY lawsuits pushing costs up orders of magniture, and regulatory bodies pandering to votes not science.
But dont worry, the Chinese are in the game now, and they care about results, not votes - so things are moving again. Perhaps thanks to them we will actually be able to start shutting down some of the long overdue old reactors and replacing with much safer more efficient new designs.
You mean the fact that people pointed out one HUGELY false part of their obviously made up statement that contained no actual facts?
No, thats called shooting the easy barrel-fish. Breeder reactors are a thing, and have been for over half a century, and a proven to work - THAT is a fact. Commercial fission power reactors extract a VERY small amount of the total available energy, pretty much fully because of regulation over proliferation risks if they do it more properly.
But your life becomes SO much BETTER when the corporations and government can track every single transaction you make, where and when it was, for how much, and to whom, and it is only able to be completed if they allow it.
Pretty much exactly no sorry, the whole basis of EFTPOS is online verification. they could do that for (older) credit card transactions, but certainly not for EFTPOS, with which online verification is a designed in requirement.
There is NOT a shitload of Capital, there is a shitload of Debt..
The markets (and governments) have been allowed to create unfettered inflation, and hide it by making sure the money flows to the top and is locked up before it directly effects consumer pricing (as strongly as it should). This is happening internationally.
The effect is to inflate away the value of the middle classes assets, making them look stupid if they dont invest in the boom-de-jour. At the same time borrowing rates are being forced lower and lower, to get the same people to borrow to keep funding the game. What happens at the end? when the productive middle classes have nothing left to suck out, and debt is everything? THAT is the big question that is approaching. This is one of the reasons public and private forces are working hard to remove 'cash', as it allows black market trading for the middle classes, and therefore as escape from total ownership.
Most likely the first round of results are higher and higher asset taxes, initially tied to capital gains, but soon moved to base asset ownership, to squeeze out the last drops of ownership from the middle class, transforming the majority in to zero asset sustenance renters. A larger and larger state/public class living above those, who gift themselves a better class of life 'because they are working to help', along with more and more complex rules and punishments to keep the serfs in line and validate the existence of the state. The real rich at the top are of course beyond that, and already have invested in high class boltholes all around the world. Most are not playing this game for more money (they have enough), but because they are addicted to the game - its all just a competition with their peers. they know they are above the state, so are not particularly concerned.
It has been clearly stated, BY UBER that they both disabled the Volvo emergency braking AND their own emergency stop/avoidance code. To imply it was just the Volvo system is trying to avoid the fact that Uber had intentionally removed their own code that would make emergency stops.
They had intentionally made a system that had NO automated method of making an emergency stop, and no method of warning the secondary driver that one was needed (which would be stupid anyway,. they are supposed to be testing a system for future use without such a driver).
They should be hammered for this - it would be the equivalent of removing the emergency brakes from a buildings lifts, or the airbags from a car, without telling anyone.
So, by your measure anyone who has a favorite pet whom they feel an emotional link with 'Is in a relationship with it'? There are a LOT of pet owners who would easily fit in to that basket, children who cry for days after loosing their first goldfish, lapdogs that are looked after like children.
Of course you need to imply something bordering on bestiality, with some insanity thrown in, in those situations? Interesting.
Or perhaps you just drink the koolaid of the US media a little too deeply - Edison spent a LOT to discredit Tesla, remember - and pretty much succeeded. After all, he needed to destroy the person who actually did most of his invention for him, which he then stole (after his own ideas turned out to be rubbish).
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I burn all my plastic in a nice big pile bellowing lovely black smoke.
Saves it ending up in the oceans. I throw away nothing. Job done.
(Actually, I dont, and hate over packaging, and reuse everything I can, but just sayin..)
(and BTW, ANYONE who uses nespresso et.al for coffee should NOT be allowed to complain about plastics pollution..)
Actually the primary change was that 'regulators' (by which I assume we can safely read glass bottle suppliers) decided that washed/sterilised glass was no longer 'food safe', and the only way to make it safe was to 'reprocess it' (basically sort it, crush it to a powder, and make new glass from it).
I believe we call it 'progress'
>If you sink a glass bottle down into the deep sea it is going to still be there for a very very long time.
And just as inert for all of that time - although often favored as a home for many sea creatures.
Other than that, what exactly was your point?
Interestingly, for a while after 9/11, it was a legal requirement for non-US carriers to issue plastic knives/forks to passengers for flights in or crossing US airspace, however it was NOT a requirement for US carriers..
After the rules were dropped, most of the non-US carriers returned to metal, and the US carriers mostly moved to plastic for no reason that is easily identified.
go figure....
Mostly this is due to massive over-regulation.
In the old days it was OK for them to collect, wash, and reuse glass bottles for example.
Then, almost certainly due to lobbying by the glass makers, it was decided that simple industrial washing it hot serializing solutions was just not enough.
Somehow a bacterial could survive (ignoring the decades of evidence that they did not) and harm some poor soul! so regulations were put in place to
require full 'reprocessing' of glass (in effect crushing, purifying, melting, recasting) to make it 'food safe' again, and THAT killed reuse.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, that is how regulatory capture works, and companies pay WELL for such things to be put in place.
Of course you MAY be talking out your arse by regurgitating a bunch of scaremongering designed to stop you reusing bottles, and therefore spending more and more on them and contributing to the basic problem.
But hey, with all those MAYs, who can be sure.
Ah, but it is not controlled, and more importantly tracked, by the local government (well, it is China, I'm sure they have back door access, but hey).
BTW, WeChat has spread a lot further than China, but not quite as commonly.
It is hard to see how people are thick enough to think that 'cashless society' is an advantage to them.
But people are always going out of their way to impress with their stupidity.
While you do go to some effort to take your somewhat on target point too far, let me reply.
The WHOLE point of this is diversion.
The people who 'feel good' from the idea of the noble busker getting money are happy.
The people who are incensed at the local government putting its effort in to this are up in arms about this payment scheme, therefore diverting them from the things the local government would rather they did not focus on.
So, it is basically a win win for these people.
So yes, they consider it important, because it helps them stay in power doing what they want to do (most of which is kept carefully out of public view).
And not to mention that 'climate change' is apparently going to increase rain.
Also notice that they dont claim any reduction in water supply, they just want something to point at that it does not magically increase as they take more and more.
Perhaps they need to look up the work 'sustainable' and apply it a little?
Oh dear.
I wonder if you realise that much of the rest of the world uses a lower daily calorie total? Pretty much only America follows the '2000' figure.
A 'moderately sedentary adult' would probably be more healthy on a bit over 1000 per day average, depending on their size, as they do not need to carry
excess body fat to protect them over times of no food, and dont need to sustain large muscle masses for actual work.
I have no idea where you got the potatoes thing from, however it is completely false - potatoes are a VERY poor food source, and no one anywhere
has lived on JUST them.. Unless you think a nearly 100% carbo diet works..
Meat is of course the secret, and that is what kept the potato eaters alive.. They DIDNT eat just potatos.. that would have killed them.
Oh dear.
Yes, look at the horrible obesity epidemics in the east. Those huge numbers of asians dropping dead from fat related causes.
Oh, wait... no, thats the west where rice is less often eaten.
Dont worry, as the east gets more western foods, their health is catching up (although down may be a better description)...
The massive obesity problems in Asia would appear to support your findings.
Oh wait, no they dont, perhaps, just perhaps, rice is not the problem, but the massive intake of fried shit and cornsyrup packed crap in the west?
Oh dear, I suspect you actually believe that.
White rice is about 90% carbohydrates, 8% protein, and 2% other.
Its basically potatoes with free protein.
Can you live on JUST white rice? no (but it would be better than many other vegetables, excepting beans/legumes)
But it certainly doesnt have 'little nutritional value' unless you dont count keeping your body fueled.
Yes, I know you are busy jerking your knee thinking it signals your green purity, but it accidentally seems to have ended up in your mouth.
The single limitation on breeder reactors have been anti-proliferation regulations, because they work TOO well.
The major limitation on new reactor designs have been a combination of NIMBY lawsuits pushing costs up orders of magniture, and regulatory bodies pandering to votes not science.
But dont worry, the Chinese are in the game now, and they care about results, not votes - so things are moving again. Perhaps thanks to them we will actually be able to start shutting down some of the long overdue old reactors and replacing with much safer more efficient new designs.
You mean the fact that people pointed out one HUGELY false part of their obviously made up statement that contained no actual facts?
No, thats called shooting the easy barrel-fish.
Breeder reactors are a thing, and have been for over half a century, and a proven to work - THAT is a fact.
Commercial fission power reactors extract a VERY small amount of the total available energy, pretty much fully because of regulation over proliferation risks if they do it more properly.
Ummmm. What?
And by what, I mean, what are you smoke, and can the rest of us have some? it must be damn good shit.
But your life becomes SO much BETTER when the corporations and government can track every single transaction you make, where and when it was, for how much, and to whom, and it is only able to be completed if they allow it.
Think of the children!
Pretty much exactly no sorry, the whole basis of EFTPOS is online verification.
they could do that for (older) credit card transactions, but certainly not for EFTPOS, with which online verification is a designed in requirement.
Lolz, you would think so.. ;) perhaps not as obvious as you think.
But where do you think the VC capital comes from?
There is NOT a shitload of Capital, there is a shitload of Debt..
The markets (and governments) have been allowed to create unfettered inflation, and hide it by making sure the money flows to the top and is locked up before it directly effects consumer pricing (as strongly as it should). This is happening internationally.
The effect is to inflate away the value of the middle classes assets, making them look stupid if they dont invest in the boom-de-jour.
At the same time borrowing rates are being forced lower and lower, to get the same people to borrow to keep funding the game.
What happens at the end? when the productive middle classes have nothing left to suck out, and debt is everything?
THAT is the big question that is approaching. This is one of the reasons public and private forces are working hard to remove 'cash', as
it allows black market trading for the middle classes, and therefore as escape from total ownership.
Most likely the first round of results are higher and higher asset taxes, initially tied to capital gains, but soon moved to base asset ownership,
to squeeze out the last drops of ownership from the middle class, transforming the majority in to zero asset sustenance renters.
A larger and larger state/public class living above those, who gift themselves a better class of life 'because they are working to help', along with
more and more complex rules and punishments to keep the serfs in line and validate the existence of the state.
The real rich at the top are of course beyond that, and already have invested in high class boltholes all around the world. Most are not playing
this game for more money (they have enough), but because they are addicted to the game - its all just a competition with their peers. they know
they are above the state, so are not particularly concerned.
Because such a direct route to an outcome doesnt extract the maximum amount of research funds?
That is usually the reason behind such things.
Milk in this context does NOT mean what you think it does.
They are not talking about something for your decafe latte
And I suspect intentionally so.
It has been clearly stated, BY UBER that they both disabled the Volvo emergency braking AND their own emergency stop/avoidance code.
To imply it was just the Volvo system is trying to avoid the fact that Uber had intentionally removed their own code that would make emergency stops.
They had intentionally made a system that had NO automated method of making an emergency stop, and no method of warning the secondary driver that one was needed (which would be stupid anyway,. they are supposed to be testing a system for future use without such a driver).
They should be hammered for this - it would be the equivalent of removing the emergency brakes from a buildings lifts, or the airbags from a car, without telling anyone.
Congratulations.
Time to go outside to the real world, and get a life perhaps?
You should thank them.
So, by your measure anyone who has a favorite pet whom they feel an emotional link with 'Is in a relationship with it'?
There are a LOT of pet owners who would easily fit in to that basket, children who cry for days after loosing their first goldfish, lapdogs that are looked after like children.
Of course you need to imply something bordering on bestiality, with some insanity thrown in, in those situations? Interesting.
Or perhaps you just drink the koolaid of the US media a little too deeply - Edison spent a LOT to discredit Tesla, remember - and pretty much succeeded.
After all, he needed to destroy the person who actually did most of his invention for him, which he then stole (after his own ideas turned out to be rubbish).