Why would you say this? Which "conservation camp" believes this bunk? Reasonably informed people DO NOT BELIEVE this. It is untrue, constantly parroted by Environmental-Deniers in order to discredit Environmentalism.
Just like this article, it is flately wrong to say that because some ignorant people believe 'it' dosent mean those they would align themselves with also believe 'it'.
I can see through this convenient "discredit-propaganda", why dont you?
Can you please tell us what the side-effects of Gastric Bypass procedure are? What about Breast Augmentation? Also, please, what are the extra effects of synthetic opiates as opposed to natural ones?
The point is simply that there are uninteded effects of all manner of arguably unnecessary substances/acts. MDMA ingestion is the right of any person in a culture that values independant freedom. The Medical Profession is not given sole right to decide what-is and is-not an acceptable array of consequences to an act... its an individuals' right to decide.
Driving a car puts pollutants in the air that agravate my asthma. It also leads to plenty of avoidable deaths each year, why dont you try and stop ICE-Care drivers? Oh, because it dosnt fit with the puritan status-quo crusade of the Pro-Prohibition Fascist Right... it is far to easy to jump on their unreasoned bandwagon than to take stock of the whole situation and make BETTER suggestions (with regard to cost, consequence and benefit of public welfare and safety)
Your a laughing stock because you elected Schwarzenegger -- not because some ignorant clerk got scared/confused by some fancy-book-sounding-words.
Do you think the rest of the country laughs at you because The Energy Industry (Enron et al) extorted the State, via a phony 'crisis' in order to get him elected -- and, as a thanks, he prompltly removed any chance they might have to pay you back?
Oh, i forgot, this is a meme that is supposed to offer up Environmentalists as ignorant tools, not our favorite hero Capitalism. Lets keep our memetics and rhetoric straight. I shouldnt be confusing the "issues".
VERY VERY few birds run into windmills. no more or less than any other man made object. This is bunk.
Myth: Wind farms pose a serious threat to birds.
Fact: Any tall structure presents a risk to birds, but the threat from wind turbines is not only very small, it is also one of the most intensively studied of all risks to birds. To put this risk into perspective, US bird experts Curry and Kerlinger have estimated that 100 million bird deaths a year can be attributed to domestic cats, compared to an estimated 5 to 10 thousand killed by turbines - meaning cats' risk to birds is at least 10,000 times greater than that posed by wind turbines in the US. The Exxon Valdez oil spill alone is estimated to have killed up to 500,000 birds. New research at operational Australian wind farms indicates that risk to birds may be even less than first expected, and well below the predicted levels from models that were run as part of the approvals process. The research found not a single mortality for rare or significant bird species
There should be a deposit on a fixed number of Industry/Government approved re-usable containers. Those containers would be 100% of what you get in the grocery store.
The 'right' for some company to require a 'unique' and absolutely disposable package in the name of 'brand-marketing' does not trump my right as a citizen to a clean commons. Further, I am tired of my tax $ being spent to clean up post-consumer waste -- let the users or producers pay! AND IF NOT(!) then a proper solution needs to be found to fix the problem... reusable, deposit based packaging is the answer.
This is crap. Absolute Crap. The fact that some mis-informed or ignorant people support Environmentalism, Conservation or Sustainability DOES NOT MEAN that the people trying to form policy suggestions are all wrong.
this is h20 BS is dragged out so that Environmental-Deniers can snicker at Environmentalists *AND* so that status-quo will be maintained. "See, they're all nuts! Wackos! Look at this! hahahahah".
Absolute 100% propaganda. While true, repeating it serves a very nafarious and specific purpose... Why does Slashdot propagate this meme?
Here is another one: Capitalists are all Fascists? Nazis were 100% anti-socialist, and very good friends of the IBM, Siemens and Ford's of the world. These Capitalists enabled Nazi Fasism from the start. They funded and co-operated in putting the Nazi's into power. Therefore, Capitalists are responsible for the WWII.
Does he have any sort of clue what goes into the development of a modern "killer game"?
Programming is nothing. There are thousands of man-hours going into art assets, level design, animation, voiceover production, playtesting, etc..
Except that maybe, just maybe the 'next big thing' in gaming -- the Breakout game that changes everything -- will not rely on those things. I cant say what it might be, but maybe some kid at Uni today is thinking about it... and he's developing it on GNU/Linux.
That is what Im waiting for. As for all this 'voice production', 'playtesting' yadda yadda -- What's to stop this game from generating that crap real-time? Digitized-Reality FPS or RPG? I dont know, but some-one somewhere is going to make that irrelevant.
What like the Energy Policy that Enron wrote? The Whitehouse has been fighting tooth and nail to prevent the notes from Mr.Cheney's consultation with the energy giants.
The US Government is as bought-and-paid-for as any other third rate dirthole. You people *really* need to wake the hell up -- legislation is LITERALLY being written by industry.
You obviously do not understand how Democracy works.... or are you caught in the 'vote for the lesser of two evils' is a good thing camp. "There are too many choices" you cry.
The Greens are much higher than 5% in BC. Our numbers have been better than 5% in QC & ON. The Greens are the most dynamic, surging party in the Country. A new political force. With new ideas.
We need Proportional Representation. We need to END FPTP voting. We need real changes, not the same old crap the Grits and Tories want to feed you.
If you care about a vital, vibrant democracy Vote Green.
Also, with this coming Federal Election, all Parties which recieve more than 5% popular vote will be given funding. $1.?? per vote per year for the duration of that government.
The reason is simple, to make them less reliant private donations.
Bunk. Sheer Bunk. This 'scandal' is not "liberal corruption" but general incompetence by *any* large beuracracy.
The Grits are not taking kickbacks or something here, all these "miss-used" fund issues are the RESULT of an AUDIT. This is exactly what the audit is supposed to accomplish. Identify monies that go astray. Now, I know this is serious $, but make no mistake, ANY entity of the size of the Federal Government has crap like this fall through the cracks.
Im not exactly a Liberal Defender here (see sig), but I find it very odd that people are so damn up-in-arms over what *I* see as a positive. Our government is conducting its finances in an open way, our auditor has discovered a problem. We should hang the contractors out to f-ing dry for trying to rob the government... this is by no means the result of POLITICIANS misdeeds.
im not happy about it, but all this fuss is really grandstanding... especially on the part of those Reform half-wits. If they got to office they'd simply sell everything to their golf-buddies. eople like Jean Cretien, former prime minister of Canada, who oversaw the entire scandal, and was likely heavily involved. People like the current PM, Paul Martin.
You are out of your mind. Do you think the PM or FM knows how every measly $200 million is spent?! I am NOT being sarcastic -- that is the job of the bureaucrats.
Is this what your Plutocratic masters want to call People? The same bastards who use this derogatory label think they should be allowed to have "Free Trade" -- what about the "Free Movment of People" as a balance?
What, your not happy with the performance of your permanent under-class? Maybe you should threaten to deport their asses and let them work in a Export Processing Zones?
Oh, BTW, if you own ANY home yous hould consider yourself lucky. A $350-400K home? Your fucking rich... maybe you should volunteer to pay your "minimal-wage mexicans" a little more eh?
with Adobe building, the interior wont require finishing. Channels for services can be printed in (so, no hole cutting to route through floor joists etc). Things might be quicker for the trades by putting everything in those channels.
Well, it makes complete sense. Use SCO capital (from MS) to buy SCO stock. Increase SCO stock price. Sell your own shares. You couldnt have MS pay money DIRECTLY to the SCO principles could you? I mean, really, running SCO into the ground with this obviously un-winnable ANTI-GNU/Linux crusade would mean that the SCO board would be purposefully destroying SCO -- they'd end up in Jail for not properly administering SCO.
This is a perfect method of actually paying SCO directors to destroy SCO* for the benefit of M$.
*not that SCO really had a chance w/ x86 unix -- GNU/Linux is going to dominate ALL Unix in short order.
which allows you to run all kinds of sweet 'burnt-into-place-and-called-a-bios'little real-time os that will allow you to drop in all kinds of cool mutli-media apps (say mp3 visualization, dvd rippers/copiers/etc)
Ive been watching a tonne of Anime lately (bebop, ghibli flicks, hacksign) and I can tell you, Yamada is some of the best -- the animation is stunning, the story genuine and simple (in a pleasant, unpretentious way... understanted and sublime). really terrific -- be sure to see it.
a good gas-powered generator Gas powered generators should be illegal. Do you know how much 2cycle (which most generators are these days) engines pollute?
This is called "The Green Tax Shift". It seeks to re-internalize (to Capitalism) the very real Costs of Pollution. (which the Capitalists presently externalize on the commons, communities and government coffers)
Unfettered Capitalism is a death sentance for us all, Free Trade is a joke. The economy exists in a regulatory framework, it is supposed to satisfy public needs. The corrupt US Government presently writes law to benefit ONLY the profit-takers (see the DMCA as proof. This crowd is hyper-aware of its purpose/use/cause and effect). THERE IS NO DEBATE ON THIS ISSUE. The US government is bought and paid for. Anyone who says otherwise is out of his mind. The question now is, What will YOU do about it?
Fair Trade subscribes an inclusion of these (and other (like international labour, safety and wage rights)) considerations.
Fair Trade advocates are not morons, besides what CNN would like to tell you, these people (myself included) are not self-destructive cranks. The question is simple, at what price are we really enjoying this 'affluent society', when all the *REAL* costs are included you discover were getting a very raw deal indeed. So long as International Plutocrats write our "Trade" agreements, you'll see that they will CONTINUE to make pollution free. Continue to make death-sentance wages in sweatshops tolerable. Continue to stay out of the way of prosecution of any kind for their anti-social and destructive ways (say, Ford's proxy killing of labour organizer Cleto Nigmo in Mexico in 1990?)
The same database && search mechanism can be accomplished TODAY simply using the serial on a device. No PASSIVE reading/tracking can take place though, if a person is required to type in the serial of an item to be tracked.
...but we dont have such a database do we, thinking that RFID will help create one is senseless.
Cars suck, sprawl destroys habitat, car-drivers cost taxpayers big $, public transit/walking and bike riding is REALLY where-its-at, highways are ugly, wars for oil suck ass, and suburbanites should be farmed for food.
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But the conservation camp does believe it
Why would you say this? Which "conservation camp" believes this bunk? Reasonably informed people DO NOT BELIEVE this. It is untrue, constantly parroted by Environmental-Deniers in order to discredit Environmentalism.
Just like this article, it is flately wrong to say that because some ignorant people believe 'it' dosent mean those they would align themselves with also believe 'it'.
I can see through this convenient "discredit-propaganda", why dont you?
We know that MDMA has some side effects.
Can you please tell us what the side-effects of Gastric Bypass procedure are? What about Breast Augmentation? Also, please, what are the extra effects of synthetic opiates as opposed to natural ones?
The point is simply that there are uninteded effects of all manner of arguably unnecessary substances/acts. MDMA ingestion is the right of any person in a culture that values independant freedom. The Medical Profession is not given sole right to decide what-is and is-not an acceptable array of consequences to an act... its an individuals' right to decide.
Driving a car puts pollutants in the air that agravate my asthma. It also leads to plenty of avoidable deaths each year, why dont you try and stop ICE-Care drivers? Oh, because it dosnt fit with the puritan status-quo crusade of the Pro-Prohibition Fascist Right... it is far to easy to jump on their unreasoned bandwagon than to take stock of the whole situation and make BETTER suggestions (with regard to cost, consequence and benefit of public welfare and safety)
Your a laughing stock because you elected Schwarzenegger -- not because some ignorant clerk got scared/confused by some fancy-book-sounding-words.
Do you think the rest of the country laughs at you because The Energy Industry (Enron et al) extorted the State, via a phony 'crisis' in order to get him elected -- and, as a thanks, he prompltly removed any chance they might have to pay you back?
Oh, i forgot, this is a meme that is supposed to offer up Environmentalists as ignorant tools, not our favorite hero Capitalism. Lets keep our memetics and rhetoric straight. I shouldnt be confusing the "issues".
Not so...it..splatters a lot of birds
VERY VERY few birds run into windmills. no more or less than any other man made object. This is bunk.
Myth: Wind farms pose a serious threat to birds.
Fact: Any tall structure presents a risk to birds, but the threat from wind turbines is not only very small, it is also one of the most intensively studied of all risks to birds. To put this risk into perspective, US bird experts Curry and Kerlinger have estimated that 100 million bird deaths a year can be attributed to domestic cats, compared to an estimated 5 to 10 thousand killed by turbines - meaning cats' risk to birds is at least 10,000 times greater than that posed by wind turbines in the US. The Exxon Valdez oil spill alone is estimated to have killed up to 500,000 birds. New research at operational Australian wind farms indicates that risk to birds may be even less than first expected, and well below the predicted levels from models that were run as part of the approvals process. The research found not a single mortality for rare or significant bird species
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There should be a deposit on a fixed number of Industry/Government approved re-usable containers. Those containers would be 100% of what you get in the grocery store.
The 'right' for some company to require a 'unique' and absolutely disposable package in the name of 'brand-marketing' does not trump my right as a citizen to a clean commons. Further, I am tired of my tax $ being spent to clean up post-consumer waste -- let the users or producers pay! AND IF NOT(!) then a proper solution needs to be found to fix the problem... reusable, deposit based packaging is the answer.
And to watch your fucking language.
This is crap. Absolute Crap. The fact that some mis-informed or ignorant people support Environmentalism, Conservation or Sustainability DOES NOT MEAN that the people trying to form policy suggestions are all wrong.
this is h20 BS is dragged out so that Environmental-Deniers can snicker at Environmentalists *AND* so that status-quo will be maintained. "See, they're all nuts! Wackos! Look at this! hahahahah".
Absolute 100% propaganda. While true, repeating it serves a very nafarious and specific purpose... Why does Slashdot propagate this meme?
Here is another one: Capitalists are all Fascists? Nazis were 100% anti-socialist, and very good friends of the IBM, Siemens and Ford's of the world. These Capitalists enabled Nazi Fasism from the start. They funded and co-operated in putting the Nazi's into power. Therefore, Capitalists are responsible for the WWII.
Works both ways.
Does he have any sort of clue what goes into the development of a modern "killer game"?
Programming is nothing. There are thousands of man-hours going into art assets, level design, animation, voiceover production, playtesting, etc..
Except that maybe, just maybe the 'next big thing' in gaming -- the Breakout game that changes everything -- will not rely on those things. I cant say what it might be, but maybe some kid at Uni today is thinking about it... and he's developing it on GNU/Linux.
That is what Im waiting for. As for all this 'voice production', 'playtesting' yadda yadda -- What's to stop this game from generating that crap real-time? Digitized-Reality FPS or RPG? I dont know, but some-one somewhere is going to make that irrelevant.
What like the Energy Policy that Enron wrote? The Whitehouse has been fighting tooth and nail to prevent the notes from Mr.Cheney's consultation with the energy giants.
Or that Schwarzenegger met with Ken Lay and other republican plutocrats to let arnold in on the fleecing of California..
The US Government is as bought-and-paid-for as any other third rate dirthole. You people *really* need to wake the hell up -- legislation is LITERALLY being written by industry.
You obviously do not understand how Democracy works.... or are you caught in the 'vote for the lesser of two evils' is a good thing camp. "There are too many choices" you cry.
The Greens are much higher than 5% in BC. Our numbers have been better than 5% in QC & ON. The Greens are the most dynamic, surging party in the Country. A new political force. With new ideas.
We need Proportional Representation. We need to END FPTP voting. We need real changes, not the same old crap the Grits and Tories want to feed you.
If you care about a vital, vibrant democracy Vote Green.
Also, with this coming Federal Election, all Parties which recieve more than 5% popular vote will be given funding. $1.?? per vote per year for the duration of that government.
The reason is simple, to make them less reliant private donations.
s/beuracracy/bureaucracy
Bunk. Sheer Bunk. This 'scandal' is not "liberal corruption" but general incompetence by *any* large beuracracy.
The Grits are not taking kickbacks or something here, all these "miss-used" fund issues are the RESULT of an AUDIT. This is exactly what the audit is supposed to accomplish. Identify monies that go astray. Now, I know this is serious $, but make no mistake, ANY entity of the size of the Federal Government has crap like this fall through the cracks.
Im not exactly a Liberal Defender here (see sig), but I find it very odd that people are so damn up-in-arms over what *I* see as a positive. Our government is conducting its finances in an open way, our auditor has discovered a problem. We should hang the contractors out to f-ing dry for trying to rob the government... this is by no means the result of POLITICIANS misdeeds.
im not happy about it, but all this fuss is really grandstanding... especially on the part of those Reform half-wits. If they got to office they'd simply sell everything to their golf-buddies.
eople like Jean Cretien, former prime minister of Canada, who oversaw the entire scandal, and was likely heavily involved. People like the current PM, Paul Martin.
You are out of your mind. Do you think the PM or FM knows how every measly $200 million is spent?! I am NOT being sarcastic -- that is the job of the bureaucrats.
illegal aliens
Is this what your Plutocratic masters want to call People? The same bastards who use this derogatory label think they should be allowed to have "Free Trade" -- what about the "Free Movment of People" as a balance?
You cant have it both ways.
What, your not happy with the performance of your permanent under-class? Maybe you should threaten to deport their asses and let them work in a Export Processing Zones?
Oh, BTW, if you own ANY home yous hould consider yourself lucky. A $350-400K home? Your fucking rich... maybe you should volunteer to pay your "minimal-wage mexicans" a little more eh?
with Adobe building, the interior wont require finishing. Channels for services can be printed in (so, no hole cutting to route through floor joists etc). Things might be quicker for the trades by putting everything in those channels.
BS. There is no shortage of people to do work. Have you ever seen the teaming, unemployed masses in all-those-places-that-are-not-the-West?
Well, it makes complete sense. Use SCO capital (from MS) to buy SCO stock. Increase SCO stock price. Sell your own shares. You couldnt have MS pay money DIRECTLY to the SCO principles could you? I mean, really, running SCO into the ground with this obviously un-winnable ANTI-GNU/Linux crusade would mean that the SCO board would be purposefully destroying SCO -- they'd end up in Jail for not properly administering SCO.
This is a perfect method of actually paying SCO directors to destroy SCO* for the benefit of M$.
*not that SCO really had a chance w/ x86 unix -- GNU/Linux is going to dominate ALL Unix in short order.
which allows you to run all kinds of sweet 'burnt-into-place-and-called-a-bios'little real-time os that will allow you to drop in all kinds of cool mutli-media apps (say mp3 visualization, dvd rippers/copiers/etc)
This is pretty darn cool.
wind,solar or human power.
Ive been watching a tonne of Anime lately (bebop, ghibli flicks, hacksign) and I can tell you, Yamada is some of the best -- the animation is stunning, the story genuine and simple (in a pleasant, unpretentious way... understanted and sublime). really terrific -- be sure to see it.
a good gas-powered generator
Gas powered generators should be illegal. Do you know how much 2cycle (which most generators are these days) engines pollute?
This is called "The Green Tax Shift". It seeks to re-internalize (to Capitalism) the very real Costs of Pollution. (which the Capitalists presently externalize on the commons, communities and government coffers)
Unfettered Capitalism is a death sentance for us all, Free Trade is a joke. The economy exists in a regulatory framework, it is supposed to satisfy public needs. The corrupt US Government presently writes law to benefit ONLY the profit-takers (see the DMCA as proof. This crowd is hyper-aware of its purpose/use/cause and effect). THERE IS NO DEBATE ON THIS ISSUE. The US government is bought and paid for. Anyone who says otherwise is out of his mind. The question now is, What will YOU do about it?
Fair Trade subscribes an inclusion of these (and other (like international labour, safety and wage rights)) considerations.
Fair Trade advocates are not morons, besides what CNN would like to tell you, these people (myself included) are not self-destructive cranks. The question is simple, at what price are we really enjoying this 'affluent society', when all the *REAL* costs are included you discover were getting a very raw deal indeed. So long as International Plutocrats write our "Trade" agreements, you'll see that they will CONTINUE to make pollution free. Continue to make death-sentance wages in sweatshops tolerable. Continue to stay out of the way of prosecution of any kind for their anti-social and destructive ways (say, Ford's proxy killing of labour organizer Cleto Nigmo in Mexico in 1990?)
The same database && search mechanism can be accomplished TODAY simply using the serial on a device. No PASSIVE reading/tracking can take place though, if a person is required to type in the serial of an item to be tracked.
...but we dont have such a database do we, thinking that RFID will help create one is senseless.
Further;
Cars suck, sprawl destroys habitat, car-drivers cost taxpayers big $, public transit/walking and bike riding is REALLY where-its-at, highways are ugly, wars for oil suck ass, and suburbanites should be farmed for food.
"my god, its made out of sheeple!"