Lots of interesting cold war information there too. Most Americans don't know how many service men died collecting sigint during period from after WWII until the late 1980's
Tannerite is a common binary explosive. You can order it shipped via USP ground.
Great stuff. Only caveat is you can not store the stuff except in an approved magazine once it is mixed. The components are stable and only mildly flammable before mixing. Once mixed it is cap sensitive/high impact sensitive. Most common detonation method is high velocity impact. 5.56X45mm is just barely enough. 7.62 NATO works every time.
Explosive are not illegal. Unsafe/improper storage is a crime.
You can buy binary explosives off the internet in 50 pound lots. You just have to mix it at the point of use on private property and not store it over 24 hours.
Google for boomer shoots and tannerite. Look at the National Firearms Act of 1934 for the definition of what fun stuff is legal with the right tax payment.
It's like someone driving through your property every day -- that still doesn't give you the right to paint slogans and ridicule on the trespassing cars as they pass.
No, they were not 'driving through' they were stealing. Every time someone hit McCaine's site the images were pulled from Davidson's site's server. It was just as if they had Mr. Davison's phone card numbers and were making long distance calls on his phone bill. IF you only understand cars then, "It was just as if they were jumping in Mr. Davidson's car and driving it around Mr. Davision's property every day". Does not Mr. Davidson have the right to paint "slogans and ridicule" on his very own privately held vehicle?
Davidson has the right to change the content on his server any time he chooses. He could have just renamed or deleted the image files and left McCaine with a bunch of red X's on the McCaine site. As other contributors have suggested Mr. Davidson could have chosen other even less friendly images to host on Mr. Davidson's very own privately held server using services for which Mr. Davidson is paying.
He would have been exactly the same if this happened in 1960.
In 1960 life was very different. His dad wouldn't be "grounding him" he'd have taken him to the wood shed and corrected his attitude. You only have to be course corrected a few times at an early age. The mother's mention of negative reinforcement probably did not include throwing the kid out the door into the street and telling him to only come home once he appecated what he had going for him in the form of a warm bed and three square meals a day.
School teachers in 1960 could beat you with a shaved baseball bat until you're buttocks were bruised so you couldn't sit down. His teacher's or their husbands would likely have been a WWII or Korean War veteran. Why mention that? Because if the little goblin had raised a hand to a teacher, he'd have drawn back a stump. His school Principal would have certainly been a) male and b) unsympathetic to his claim of 'abuse'. His Principal would very likely have a shaved baseball bat and two foot prints painted on the floor in front of his desk.
If none of that registered on him, in 1960, he'd of been shipped off to someplace like "West Texas Boy's Ranch" or "The San Antonio Boy's Town" or "Father Flanagan's Boys Town" or any of the other "homes for boys". He'd have had to work 30-35 hours a week growing the food he ate, tending the stock and still ride the bus 1-2 hours each way to attend school. He'd live in a "bay barracks" style dorm with 30 other kids. He would do laundry, muck out barns, peel potatoes and stack hay. Sunday he'd go to church and get a whole 5-6 hours to reflect the error of his way.
If he ran away and tried to 'go home' the Sheriff would run him down with dogs and drag him back to the county farm for recalcitrant youth or what ever the place was called. Then the keepers would move his bunk to the barn take his mattress and blankets way until he'd earned his spot in the dorm back.
Believe it or not the boy would be different. If this was 1960 he'd be different or he'd be dead.
If "those votes might simply be gone" is even a possibility, then the device you are describing has no business being anywhere near an election.
Which is a good counter arguent to the poster's up thread. A $100 PC in a $50 arcade cabinet with a $20 printer could do everything that a perfect voting machine needs to do
What about a human/machine readable printout ala a scatron form?
You touch the screen and print the form. You look over your form and tear it up and do it over if you make a mistake. You get to turn the form in then it gets scanned into the 'count unit' and stored in the event its needed for a recount or alleged voting fraud.
country (n) kúntree - 1, The territory occupied by a nation, "he visited several European countries" 2, A politically organized body of people under a single government, "the country's largest manufacturer" 3, The people who live in a nation or country "the whole country worshipped him" 4, An area outside of cities and towns "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country" 5, A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
Since Antarctica has no permanent or indigenous human population, people, it is not a country.
Anyway, you talk about the ALF. We were talking about TREES. The "A" in ALF stands for Animal. There is a slight difference.
You asked how "save the trees" could be construed as militant. The "save the tress" meme is getting polluted with speech and actions of people that espouse less peaceful views than yours. I agree ALF is not a perfect example of militant environmentalism.
Yes, ALF is the "Animal Liberation Front"; however, in the US Pacific Northwest they burned logging company trucks, filled bulldozer's crankcase with sand and placed metal spikes in trees with the intent of maiming timber men trying to cut those trees. Why did ALF do this? Their intent was "to save the trees!" and hence protect the animals living in those trees, like the spotted owl.
That's the kind of site your blanket ban would catch. That's why I'm annoyed at people who like to use the word "ecoterrorist" to dismiss peaceful protestors. Get a clue.
I admit I gave you an imperfect example of how the shop worn phrase "save the trees" could be considered militant but now you imply I'm for banning web sites and infringing on your God given right to protest. Please cite anywhere I condoned or approved banning any web site?
You have made an assertion not supported by the facts in evidence. You have failed the reading comprehension portion of the test.
NO I'm not for banning anything. I believe firmly in the right to free speech. Freedom of speech is an unbridgeable right implicit to the human condition and endowed in us by our creator. It is a requirement of a free and liberal society. Hate speech laws and most college speech codes infringe on free speech rights by allowing speech the majority disapproves of to be suppressed. Mob rule and shouting down speech you disagree with is wrong.
Any speech that doesn't advocate violence or cause unjustified panic should be allowed. It is you who need to get a cue!
How the hell do you classify "save the trees" as "militant"?
You know the save the animals group that threatens to kill animal researchers' kids, torches their cars and once stole the corpse of research lab owner's Aunt in Great Britain to hold hostage until they closed up shop? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_Fro nt
They are closely related to the people that do things like the stuff in these articles.
This is about "hate speech". Speech that vilifies people and advocates violence against them. You'll find some idiot spouting violent threats on any and every issue (just look at any usenet thread longer than 40 posts), that hardly justifies blocking the entire topic.
And IYAO ALF and other enviomental terror groups don't, as you put it, use "(s)peech that vilifies people and advocates violence against them"?
At this point, it's easier to just draft a new message and paraphrase, "Bob, did you see an email from Alice commenting about the Widget lately?"
A new message leaves the reference too vague for most Bid'ness Bob's to understand the question. You'd have to include the message or eight pages of text to get them into context on the discussion. That kind of defeats "it's easier" part of your suggestion.
Most of Florida is excellent for growing sugar cane and rice. Any fermentable sugar is a stock for ethanol. The current level of sugar production in the US is artificially low. The high prices on domestic cane sugar are an outgrowth of tariffs on imported sugar and a governmental quota system for acreage allotments to grow cane. The same is true for peanuts and many other sources of oils and fermentable carbohydrates.
The technologic inovations already exist. They just need the market price for fossil fuels to rise above the inital production costs.
Brazil is using cane sugar to produce ethanol fuels at a price point below the current cost of imported oil. Cane avoids the 'cellulous conversion' issue you keep pointing at. Brazil is piloting bio-diesel production from soy, sunflowers and rapeseed.
Fuel grade soy oil can be extracted from the bean in current production facilities. The fuel can be distributed and used in currently fielded tankage and vehicles. Soy oil is one of the worst candidates for fuel. The production per acre is way below the production of ethanol from corn but the production costs are around $0.30 per gallon. There are many plant oils that can be used for fuel production. Here are some production rates for other crops grown in the US.
Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km) Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km) Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km) Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km) Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2] Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
Commercial algae farming does not require use of arable land and could occur in costal waters. The issue for algae based fuel is production cost. The current price estimates are $61-$127 a barrel. The existence of any steady supply of fuel at a lower price point raises the risk of development of algae based fuels beyond the limit of most venture capitalists. No capitalization means no development of the resource.
"This person claimed that their decision making process was to assume all members of society were lying."
Quit putting your words in the parent poster's mouth. Those are your words not his. You have just failed the reading comprehension portion of the slashdot experience. The writer stated that he felt nothing is honestly done, not that everything done is a lie.
As this writer to whom you are replying pointed out.
"Nice attempt to paint his comment as like unto Epimenides' Paradox [wikipedia.org], but it fails in that "honesty" and "truthfulness" are not the same thing."
There exist a host of truths that are not lies but are very misleading.
I do contract security work for a Gov'm't agency. The Letter of Counciling (LOC) is a type of military letter of reprimand. In the skiff, the secure computing area, you can be sent to Ft. Leavenworth Kansas for up to five years for doing what the "Gomer Pyles" do weekly in the cubefarm. LOC's are a death kiss depending on your MOS. An 11Bravo can get a bunch of 'em and not get in too much trouble. A 96Bravo or 98Golf will get his clearance pulled and become an 11Bravo.
Getting your key badge "Controlled Access Card" , smart card Military issued ID, back after we shredded it is a major PITA. But the problem isn't mine anymore. The problem devolves to the member in question having to explain to his superiors why he 'lost' his card three times this year. The best thing they could do is admit they left it unattended in their computer and someone took it. They worse thing they can do is lie.
We did get an O-3 article 15'd for lying over this one. We'd turned his card into his DoD civilian boss. When he couldn't get back on post after lunch without the CAC card he called his boss for an escort to get him back on post to go to pass and ID. The boss had his card but didn't tell him. Once he was back in the office he told a story about getting mugged and dropping his wallet with the ID in it. He rode the story down in flames.
Use to be we'd just wander through the cubage and when we had collected two or three "abandoned" cards from machines, we'd copy the faces of the cards. Then we'd give them to department supervisors for security violation write ups. We'd keep the copy to make sure the supervisors write them up. We suspended the accounts after two violations. If the offenders didn't have a Letter of Counciling on file in 10 working days, we had to write up the supervisors and suspend their accounts until their up-chain managers filed the right paper work to re-enable the account.
After a couple of years of irregularly spaced walk throughs of the cube farm and countless email 'reminders' about computer security we gave that up.
We got tire of being called the 'net nazis' and worse.
Now we just take the badge out of the machine and walk it down to the security desk and tell them we found the on the floor in the bathroom. If we feel bitchy we trash the card or shred them then the 'somebody else problem' effect kicks in.
Why bother with provisional ballots? Why not just have every properly identified registered voter vote on a paper ballot using a nice big black indelible felt tip marker? You fill in the bubble for your choice and after you are done you drop it in the box.
You make a bunch of stray marks? You ask for a clean ballot.
You select wrong candidate? You ask for a clean ballot.
You vote for both candidates in the same election? You ask for a clean ballot.
You make a mistake? You ask for a clean ballot.
The ballots get collected and run through three different manufacturer's 'scantron' type optical readers each using a different detection method. Total is the number you get by two out of three of the different scanning methods.
Questionable votes? Add a collator to separate the ballots. Then inspect the ballot by hand and/or rescan.
Dispute an election outcome. Rescan for only that race, separate by candidate, inspect and hand count.
Problems on a ballot, like double votes, no votes, write-in-candidates already get resolved under state and local voting laws.
At the end there is always a human readable permanent record, the original ballot.
Nice of you to start with your ad hominem attack on the poster's source.
It's likely that the news you heard was merely repeating lies.
Swiftly followed by your strawman argument.
Voter registration is checked at each polling place, and it's unlikely that a bunch of retarded people are registered to vote in multiple precincts.
Yeah, but if an unscrupulous group have registered the 'graveyard vote' in those precincts and give the 'retarded' people a cookie to say "Yes, I'm me!" and hand over this piece of paper in response to request for voter registration. Then, being card carrying registered democratic handicapped voters, these 'retarded' people have to have their "government paid life skills aid", who is also driving the bus, go in the vote booth to "read" them the ballot and "help" them vote.
If someone is going to collude to commit fraud, you don't give them credit to be smart enough to have filed the registration cards? Yes, you have to be registered but you don't have to have a picture id. You can register a dead dog living in a vacant lot as a voter.
If it's true, it shouldn't be difficult to track it down and prosecute the people registered in multiple places.
Prosecute who? The dead people for whom someone mailed in a voter resignation card? The addresses are most likely to a "residential Hotel" that rents rooms by the hour or a homeless shelter where one of the conspirators works. They could take the job as 'night manager' for a few weeks register the graveyard voters collect the cards in return mail and quit the job up to a year or more before the election.
BTW - HAVING HAD TROUBLE IN THE PAST BEING UNDER STOOD BY AMERICAN READERS, most of whom have English as a second language, LOOK UP "appositive" IN THE DICTIONARY
I concur. Civil disobedience is a valid tool for change. The parent to which I replied contained a glaring non sequitur. Simple because one thinks the majority of a people believe a law is immoral does not invalidate the law. The law must be formally removed from the books. To do otherwise would break down the 'rule of law' by having sections of the law that are selectively enforced or ignored.
Civil disobedience raises the awareness of the population to bad laws. Juries can then elect to find the protestors innocent based on the facts of the case. This puts pressure on the courts and legislative branches to revise or repeal the statute in question.
What you quoted me as saying is a matter of fact not an opinion of the morality or immorality. It is a fact contempt of court gets you in trouble with judges.
For example this case from SFGate on a case of ringing cell phones in an Indiana courtroom.
In Indiana Judges can punish you on a whim with 40 hours of community service for not turning off your cell phone in their courtroom. In Texas judges can lock up up indefinitely for any slight they consider contempt without appeal. Is that moral or immoral? I don't care. Is it legal under the current laws? Why yes it is.
We live in a democratic republic -- therefore if elected officials are not serving the people and allowing laws which directly contravene your wishes, you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
This is very poor logic on your part. It contravenes my wishes that you are wasting my air by breathing but the elected officials have passed laws prohibiting me from killing you, therefore, living in a democratic republic I have no moral obligation not to kill you anyway?
You can vote out the people passing the laws you don't agree with, or you can get them to repeal the laws you don't wish to follow but you have a legal obligation to comply with the whole body of law no matter how morally objectionable you may find specific items. By claiming one individual's wishes out weights the collective rights of the elected government, you violate the basic principle of a representative democracy. Law is a set of compromises with which everyone disagrees at one point or another. You are legally and morally obligated to obey the law or to change it.
You try your logic in a court of law in almost any country in the world and you will be in the same situation as the person in the article, i.e. getting the book thrown at you. In Texas the judge would additionally cite you for contempt of court and could fine you and throw you in jail. You can be held indefinitely for contempt of court. The judge could have you sit in shackles and a pink jumpsuit the corner of his courtroom every day until you apologized and begged him pretty please to release you. If you acted out or disrupted the sessions he could have the bailiff taser you into submission and drag you to the holding cell for the rest of the day and add days, weeks or months to your sentence as punishment for every occurrence.
Joe would get fired three weeks before his multi-million dollar revenue generator of a project was due in test. You and Frank would work a hundred hours a week for the next four weeks getting Joe's code cleaned up to send to test. Test would reject the project because you didn't follow the obscure archaic bundling requirements for binaries the customer requires for the project.
After you and Frank busting your buns getting the binaries repackaged and fixing all the bugs at the expense of losing your health, GF and any hope of a real life to get the project out six months late. The customer rejects the project because of a technicality in the functional specs that you and Frank overlooked because you were over worked and under slept. They sue your employer for failure to complete critical requirements, cost overruns and failure to meet the completion date. You employer ceases to exist except as a shell company that out sources all the technical work to Bangladesh.
You are now out of a job and blackballed as a "problem" employee because while you were cleaning out your cube, they over heard you saying you were on your way to kill some trolls. Not knowing you were a WoW play the eco-freak HR rep thinking you were going to go kill real trolls, (which must be an endangered species since they are so rare they are mythical), decided to use you and Frank as scape goats for the brew-ha-ha and bad mouths you to every potential employer in the multi-verse.
1. I misread your post. I'm sorry I didn't get your point. I ran your comment and the previous Michael Moore post together in my mind. So I agree today I am a fucking idiot.
2. I jumped to the conclusion that a "progressive" handle and a Mikey Moore quote meant a supporter of his work. I keyed on the "in their own words" part of the quote.
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I have the tee shirt to prove it.
Lots of interesting cold war information there too. Most Americans don't know how many service men died collecting sigint during period from after WWII until the late 1980's
Tannerite is a common binary explosive. You can order it shipped via USP ground.
Great stuff. Only caveat is you can not store the stuff except in an approved magazine once it is mixed. The components are stable and only mildly flammable before mixing. Once mixed it is cap sensitive/high impact sensitive. Most common detonation method is high velocity impact. 5.56X45mm is just barely enough. 7.62 NATO works every time.
Explosive are not illegal. Unsafe/improper storage is a crime.
You can buy binary explosives off the internet in 50 pound lots. You just have to mix it at the point of use on private property and not store it over 24 hours.
Google for boomer shoots and tannerite. Look at the National Firearms Act of 1934 for the definition of what fun stuff is legal with the right tax payment.
It's like someone driving through your property every day -- that still doesn't give you the right to paint slogans and ridicule on the trespassing cars as they pass.
No, they were not 'driving through' they were stealing. Every time someone hit McCaine's site the images were pulled from Davidson's site's server. It was just as if they had Mr. Davison's phone card numbers and were making long distance calls on his phone bill. IF you only understand cars then, "It was just as if they were jumping in Mr. Davidson's car and driving it around Mr. Davision's property every day". Does not Mr. Davidson have the right to paint "slogans and ridicule" on his very own privately held vehicle?
Davidson has the right to change the content on his server any time he chooses. He could have just renamed or deleted the image files and left McCaine with a bunch of red X's on the McCaine site. As other contributors have suggested Mr. Davidson could have chosen other even less friendly images to host on Mr. Davidson's very own privately held server using services for which Mr. Davidson is paying.
He would have been exactly the same if this happened in 1960.
In 1960 life was very different. His dad wouldn't be "grounding him" he'd have taken him to the wood shed and corrected his attitude. You only have to be course corrected a few times at an early age. The mother's mention of negative reinforcement probably did not include throwing the kid out the door into the street and telling him to only come home once he appecated what he had going for him in the form of a warm bed and three square meals a day.
School teachers in 1960 could beat you with a shaved baseball bat until you're buttocks were bruised so you couldn't sit down. His teacher's or their husbands would likely have been a WWII or Korean War veteran. Why mention that? Because if the little goblin had raised a hand to a teacher, he'd have drawn back a stump. His school Principal would have certainly been a) male and b) unsympathetic to his claim of 'abuse'. His Principal would very likely have a shaved baseball bat and two foot prints painted on the floor in front of his desk.
If none of that registered on him, in 1960, he'd of been shipped off to someplace like "West Texas Boy's Ranch" or "The San Antonio Boy's Town" or "Father Flanagan's Boys Town" or any of the other "homes for boys". He'd have had to work 30-35 hours a week growing the food he ate, tending the stock and still ride the bus 1-2 hours each way to attend school. He'd live in a "bay barracks" style dorm with 30 other kids. He would do laundry, muck out barns, peel potatoes and stack hay. Sunday he'd go to church and get a whole 5-6 hours to reflect the error of his way.
If he ran away and tried to 'go home' the Sheriff would run him down with dogs and drag him back to the county farm for recalcitrant youth or what ever the place was called. Then the keepers would move his bunk to the barn take his mattress and blankets way until he'd earned his spot in the dorm back.
Believe it or not the boy would be different. If this was 1960 he'd be different or he'd be dead.
You just cited TubeSteak (669689)
CAN YOU READ ENGLISH?
SHOULD I TYPE SLOWER SO YOU CAN READ IT BETTER?
I am BobBoring (18422) and I say again Please cite anywhere I condoned or approved banning any web site?
And I repeat you seem have failed the reading comprehension portion of the exam.
If "those votes might simply be gone" is even a possibility, then the device you are describing has no business being anywhere near an election.
Which is a good counter arguent to the poster's up thread. A $100 PC in a $50 arcade cabinet with a $20 printer could do everything that a perfect voting machine needs to do
What about a human/machine readable printout ala a scatron form?
You touch the screen and print the form. You look over your form and tear it up and do it over if you make a mistake. You get to turn the form in then it gets scanned into the 'count unit' and stored in the event its needed for a recount or alleged voting fraud.
Um.. Antarctica is a continent.
country (n) kúntree - 1, The territory occupied by a nation, "he visited several European countries" 2, A politically organized body of people under a single government, "the country's largest manufacturer" 3, The people who live in a nation or country "the whole country worshipped him" 4, An area outside of cities and towns "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country" 5, A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
Since Antarctica has no permanent or indigenous human population, people, it is not a country.
Quit splitting hairs and jumping to conclusions.
Anyway, you talk about the ALF. We were talking about TREES. The "A" in ALF stands for Animal. There is a slight difference.
You asked how "save the trees" could be construed as militant. The "save the tress" meme is getting polluted with speech and actions of people that espouse less peaceful views than yours. I agree ALF is not a perfect example of militant environmentalism.
Yes, ALF is the "Animal Liberation Front"; however, in the US Pacific Northwest they burned logging company trucks, filled bulldozer's crankcase with sand and placed metal spikes in trees with the intent of maiming timber men trying to cut those trees. Why did ALF do this? Their intent was "to save the trees!" and hence protect the animals living in those trees, like the spotted owl.
That's the kind of site your blanket ban would catch. That's why I'm annoyed at people who like to use the word "ecoterrorist" to dismiss peaceful protestors.
Get a clue.
I admit I gave you an imperfect example of how the shop worn phrase "save the trees" could be considered militant but now you imply I'm for banning web sites and infringing on your God given right to protest. Please cite anywhere I condoned or approved banning any web site?
You have made an assertion not supported by the facts in evidence. You have failed the reading comprehension portion of the test.
NO I'm not for banning anything. I believe firmly in the right to free speech. Freedom of speech is an unbridgeable right implicit to the human condition and endowed in us by our creator. It is a requirement of a free and liberal society. Hate speech laws and most college speech codes infringe on free speech rights by allowing speech the majority disapproves of to be suppressed. Mob rule and shouting down speech you disagree with is wrong.
Any speech that doesn't advocate violence or cause unjustified panic should be allowed. It is you who need to get a cue!
How the hell do you classify "save the trees" as "militant"?
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You know the save the animals group that threatens to kill animal researchers' kids, torches their cars and once stole the corpse of research lab owner's Aunt in Great Britain to hold hostage until they closed up shop?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_Fr
They are closely related to the people that do things like the stuff in these articles.
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Nope no violent "SaVe hte treess" militants there
This is about "hate speech". Speech that vilifies people and advocates violence against them. You'll find some idiot spouting violent threats on any and every issue (just look at any usenet thread longer than 40 posts), that hardly justifies blocking the entire topic.
And IYAO ALF and other enviomental terror groups don't, as you put it, use "(s)peech that vilifies people and advocates violence against them"?
I have mod points but just posted earlier in the discussion.
...of Heckler's_veto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler's_veto Which if the speaker planned ahead and had photos of the faces, license plates, and video taken of the event, could have resulted in federal civil rights charges being filed against the scooter-dudes for violation of the speaker's right to freedom of speach in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_ the_United_States
Remember the next time you have something to say and you get shouted down it is because "what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander"
Endorsing repressive tactics is oh so tolerant and open minded.
At this point, it's easier to just draft a new message and paraphrase, "Bob, did you see an email from Alice commenting about the Widget lately?"
A new message leaves the reference too vague for most Bid'ness Bob's to understand the question. You'd have to include the message or eight pages of text to get them into context on the discussion. That kind of defeats "it's easier" part of your suggestion.
large parts of Florida
Most of Florida is excellent for growing sugar cane and rice. Any fermentable sugar is a stock for ethanol. The current level of sugar production in the US is artificially low. The high prices on domestic cane sugar are an outgrowth of tariffs on imported sugar and a governmental quota system for acreage allotments to grow cane. The same is true for peanuts and many other sources of oils and fermentable carbohydrates.
The technologic inovations already exist. They just need the market price for fossil fuels to rise above the inital production costs.
Brazil is using cane sugar to produce ethanol fuels at a price point below the current cost of imported oil. Cane avoids the 'cellulous conversion' issue you keep pointing at. Brazil is piloting bio-diesel production from soy, sunflowers and rapeseed.
Fuel grade soy oil can be extracted from the bean in current production facilities. The fuel can be distributed and used in currently fielded tankage and vehicles. Soy oil is one of the worst candidates for fuel. The production per acre is way below the production of ethanol from corn but the production costs are around $0.30 per gallon. There are many plant oils that can be used for fuel production. Here are some production rates for other crops grown in the US.
Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
Commercial algae farming does not require use of arable land and could occur in costal waters. The issue for algae based fuel is production cost. The current price estimates are $61-$127 a barrel. The existence of any steady supply of fuel at a lower price point raises the risk of development of algae based fuels beyond the limit of most venture capitalists. No capitalization means no development of the resource.
"This person claimed that their decision making process was to assume all members of society were lying."
Quit putting your words in the parent poster's mouth. Those are your words not his. You have just failed the reading comprehension portion of the slashdot experience. The writer stated that he felt nothing is honestly done, not that everything done is a lie.
As this writer to whom you are replying pointed out.
"Nice attempt to paint his comment as like unto Epimenides' Paradox [wikipedia.org], but it fails in that "honesty" and "truthfulness" are not the same thing."
There exist a host of truths that are not lies but are very misleading.
I do contract security work for a Gov'm't agency. The Letter of Counciling (LOC) is a type of military letter of reprimand. In the skiff, the secure computing area, you can be sent to Ft. Leavenworth Kansas for up to five years for doing what the "Gomer Pyles" do weekly in the cubefarm. LOC's are a death kiss depending on your MOS. An 11Bravo can get a bunch of 'em and not get in too much trouble. A 96Bravo or 98Golf will get his clearance pulled and become an 11Bravo.
Getting your key badge "Controlled Access Card" , smart card Military issued ID, back after we shredded it is a major PITA. But the problem isn't mine anymore. The problem devolves to the member in question having to explain to his superiors why he 'lost' his card three times this year. The best thing they could do is admit they left it unattended in their computer and someone took it. They worse thing they can do is lie.
We did get an O-3 article 15'd for lying over this one. We'd turned his card into his DoD civilian boss. When he couldn't get back on post after lunch without the CAC card he called his boss for an escort to get him back on post to go to pass and ID. The boss had his card but didn't tell him. Once he was back in the office he told a story about getting mugged and dropping his wallet with the ID in it. He rode the story down in flames.
Use to be we'd just wander through the cubage and when we had collected two or three "abandoned" cards from machines, we'd copy the faces of the cards. Then we'd give them to department supervisors for security violation write ups. We'd keep the copy to make sure the supervisors write them up. We suspended the accounts after two violations. If the offenders didn't have a Letter of Counciling on file in 10 working days, we had to write up the supervisors and suspend their accounts until their up-chain managers filed the right paper work to re-enable the account.
After a couple of years of irregularly spaced walk throughs of the cube farm and countless email 'reminders' about computer security we gave that up.
We got tire of being called the 'net nazis' and worse.
Now we just take the badge out of the machine and walk it down to the security desk and tell them we found the on the floor in the bathroom. If we feel bitchy we trash the card or shred them then the 'somebody else problem' effect kicks in.
Why bother with provisional ballots? Why not just have every properly identified registered voter vote on a paper ballot using a nice big black indelible felt tip marker?
You fill in the bubble for your choice and after you are done you drop it in the box.
You make a bunch of stray marks? You ask for a clean ballot.
You select wrong candidate? You ask for a clean ballot.
You vote for both candidates in the same election? You ask for a clean ballot.
You make a mistake? You ask for a clean ballot.
The ballots get collected and run through three different manufacturer's 'scantron' type optical readers each using a different detection method. Total is the number you get by two out of three of the different scanning methods.
Questionable votes? Add a collator to separate the ballots. Then inspect the ballot by hand and/or rescan.
Dispute an election outcome. Rescan for only that race, separate by candidate, inspect and hand count.
Problems on a ballot, like double votes, no votes, write-in-candidates already get resolved under state and local voting laws.
At the end there is always a human readable permanent record, the original ballot.
Dear "Profane MuthaFucka",
Nice of you to start with your ad hominem attack on the poster's source.
It's likely that the news you heard was merely repeating lies.
Swiftly followed by your strawman argument.
Voter registration is checked at each polling place, and it's unlikely that a bunch of retarded people are registered to vote in multiple precincts.
Yeah, but if an unscrupulous group have registered the 'graveyard vote' in those precincts and give the 'retarded' people a cookie to say "Yes, I'm me!" and hand over this piece of paper in response to request for voter registration. Then, being card carrying registered democratic handicapped voters, these 'retarded' people have to have their "government paid life skills aid", who is also driving the bus, go in the vote booth to "read" them the ballot and "help" them vote.
If someone is going to collude to commit fraud, you don't give them credit to be smart enough to have filed the registration cards? Yes, you have to be registered but you don't have to have a picture id. You can register a dead dog living in a vacant lot as a voter.
If it's true, it shouldn't be difficult to track it down and prosecute the people registered in multiple places.
Prosecute who? The dead people for whom someone mailed in a voter resignation card? The addresses are most likely to a "residential Hotel" that rents rooms by the hour or a homeless shelter where one of the conspirators works. They could take the job as 'night manager' for a few weeks register the graveyard voters collect the cards in return mail and quit the job up to a year or more before the election.
BTW - HAVING HAD TROUBLE IN THE PAST BEING UNDER STOOD BY AMERICAN READERS, most of whom have English as a second language, LOOK UP "appositive" IN THE DICTIONARY
I concur. Civil disobedience is a valid tool for change. The parent to which I replied contained a glaring non sequitur. Simple because one thinks the majority of a people believe a law is immoral does not invalidate the law. The law must be formally removed from the books. To do otherwise would break down the 'rule of law' by having sections of the law that are selectively enforced or ignored.
Civil disobedience raises the awareness of the population to bad laws. Juries can then elect to find the protestors innocent based on the facts of the case. This puts pressure on the courts and legislative branches to revise or repeal the statute in question.
I'm attacking his logic.
BTW -1 for your reading comprehension.
What you quoted me as saying is a matter of fact not an opinion of the morality or immorality. It is a fact contempt of court gets you in trouble with judges.
For example this case from SFGate on a case of ringing cell phones in an Indiana courtroom.
Link to SF gate article
In Indiana Judges can punish you on a whim with 40 hours of community service for not turning off your cell phone in their courtroom. In Texas judges can lock up up indefinitely for any slight they consider contempt without appeal. Is that moral or immoral? I don't care. Is it legal under the current laws? Why yes it is.
Five pound drilling hammer and a center punch.
Just drive the punch through the top of the drive and out the bottom of the controller and you're done.
We live in a democratic republic -- therefore if elected officials are not serving the people and allowing laws which directly contravene your wishes, you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
This is very poor logic on your part. It contravenes my wishes that you are wasting my air by breathing but the elected officials have passed laws prohibiting me from killing you, therefore, living in a democratic republic I have no moral obligation not to kill you anyway?
You can vote out the people passing the laws you don't agree with, or you can get them to repeal the laws you don't wish to follow but you have a legal obligation to comply with the whole body of law no matter how morally objectionable you may find specific items. By claiming one individual's wishes out weights the collective rights of the elected government, you violate the basic principle of a representative democracy. Law is a set of compromises with which everyone disagrees at one point or another. You are legally and morally obligated to obey the law or to change it.
You try your logic in a court of law in almost any country in the world and you will be in the same situation as the person in the article, i.e. getting the book thrown at you. In Texas the judge would additionally cite you for contempt of court and could fine you and throw you in jail. You can be held indefinitely for contempt of court. The judge could have you sit in shackles and a pink jumpsuit the corner of his courtroom every day until you apologized and begged him pretty please to release you. If you acted out or disrupted the sessions he could have the bailiff taser you into submission and drag you to the holding cell for the rest of the day and add days, weeks or months to your sentence as punishment for every occurrence.
Joe would get fired three weeks before his multi-million dollar revenue generator of a project was due in test. You and Frank would work a hundred hours a week for the next four weeks getting Joe's code cleaned up to send to test. Test would reject the project because you didn't follow the obscure archaic bundling requirements for binaries the customer requires for the project.
After you and Frank busting your buns getting the binaries repackaged and fixing all the bugs at the expense of losing your health, GF and any hope of a real life to get the project out six months late. The customer rejects the project because of a technicality in the functional specs that you and Frank overlooked because you were over worked and under slept. They sue your employer for failure to complete critical requirements, cost overruns and failure to meet the completion date. You employer ceases to exist except as a shell company that out sources all the technical work to Bangladesh.
You are now out of a job and blackballed as a "problem" employee because while you were cleaning out your cube, they over heard you saying you were on your way to kill some trolls. Not knowing you were a WoW play the eco-freak HR rep thinking you were going to go kill real trolls, (which must be an endangered species since they are so rare they are mythical), decided to use you and Frank as scape goats for the brew-ha-ha and bad mouths you to every potential employer in the multi-verse.
Apology offered.
1. I misread your post. I'm sorry I didn't get your point. I ran your comment and the previous Michael Moore post together in my mind. So I agree today I am a fucking idiot.
2. I jumped to the conclusion that a "progressive" handle and a Mikey Moore quote meant a supporter of his work. I keyed on the "in their own words" part of the quote.