The reason we have not run out of food is that we have engaged in an ever expanding wave of unsustainable agriculture.
When the Ogallala aquifer is depleted in the next 30 years, the US will lose 3/4th or more of its arable farmland. High yield farming techniques strip the soil of nutrients that even chemical fertilizers can not replace. When irrigation fails, the loose stripped soil will be blown away. This is a disaster we have seen before with the dust bowl.
I am not saying over population is to blame for this, but the over production that allows the US to export food to the world will end in our lifetime. The only thing that can be done is to reduce production now by phasing in sustainable agriculture practices, but that isn't profitable and will be very difficult to provide food for everyone so it won't happen. Even if we solve the irrigation issue with nuclear powered desalination plants pumping the pacific ocean over the Rockies, we still have to reduce production to preserve the quality of soil in the long term.
Directionality of LEDs is not always a bonus. The pelican afterglow PS3 controller has 7 ridiculously bright green LEDs. two of them are pointed directly into your eyes while holding the controller normally. I had to wrap the thing in black electrical tape.
No. Lighting is the first thing that these poor people need. With lighting they get an extra 4 to 6 hours in a day where they can effectively work in their home without the fuel costs that traditional lighting involves. Like the article said, one woman with the lights noticed her children had dramatically improved grades because they had the opportunity to study at home.
They are attempting to calculate the best approach to getting fresh food in their bowl based on your mood and their own. Do they howl until you give in? A little mewl and a flick of the tail? A pur and flop next to the bowl so that you notice it is empty while giving a belly rub? That little head butt thing that says "you one of my people and thats cool with me"? Do they sit on your dinner plate? Do they walk up to a glass of grape juice, look you in the eye and then knock it onto the carpet?
If you want your wife to swing that way, she should feel like she is the hottest one in the room. That way she she will feel more secure and hopefully have just as much fun as you do.
No. It means that the ritual itself provides a placebo effect on a subconscious level even if you consciously know it is a placebo. The study does validate bunk medical treatments in any way.
I utterly hate going to doctors, I was very ill for a long time due to the misdiagnosis and incompetent treatment by my doctors. But even I know that medicine produces real results.
At the moment, cash is basically the only (mostly) anonymous means of payment available. Since when is less anonymous is a good idea?
Since we decided that this whole freedom thing that those hippies who founded this nation so adored was over rated. And then we decided to try out a fascist police state and corporate kleptocracy run by a class of people who have the right to be given more money, not for work, but because they already have a lot of money.
If you know who is suspect and have good version control, you can use identify any changes that they made and start looking for problems there. It won't be 100% sure because they there is always a possibility that you don't suspect the right people.
As a woman reader of/., no, I would not have reacted that way.....of course, IRL.../. women have just a hard of time finding a date as/. men do.:)
blasphemy! you have your choice of anonymous cowards, overweight otaku, guys hiding in their parents basement, and insecure guys who start every conversation by telling you that they are a genius... oh.
At some point you have to decide if the damage she does to you is worth it. I put my foot down and told her she had to stop hurting me (mostly through her own guilt and self destruction) or else. So she changed, got worse, and now I am free from her. She is some other suckers problem now.
I thought the most barbaric thing to come out of this story is that a US corp pimped children out to afghan warlords to secure a contract and the US government is covering it up and not holding anyone responsible?
Try reading a few more sentences. He states the windows virus problem is mostly resulting from its dominance as a monoculture. That mac or linux would have much more malware than they do now if they had 90% market share.
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The reason we have not run out of food is that we have engaged in an ever expanding wave of unsustainable agriculture.
When the Ogallala aquifer is depleted in the next 30 years, the US will lose 3/4th or more of its arable farmland. High yield farming techniques strip the soil of nutrients that even chemical fertilizers can not replace. When irrigation fails, the loose stripped soil will be blown away. This is a disaster we have seen before with the dust bowl.
I am not saying over population is to blame for this, but the over production that allows the US to export food to the world will end in our lifetime. The only thing that can be done is to reduce production now by phasing in sustainable agriculture practices, but that isn't profitable and will be very difficult to provide food for everyone so it won't happen. Even if we solve the irrigation issue with nuclear powered desalination plants pumping the pacific ocean over the Rockies, we still have to reduce production to preserve the quality of soil in the long term.
Directionality of LEDs is not always a bonus. The pelican afterglow PS3 controller has 7 ridiculously bright green LEDs. two of them are pointed directly into your eyes while holding the controller normally. I had to wrap the thing in black electrical tape.
No. Lighting is the first thing that these poor people need. With lighting they get an extra 4 to 6 hours in a day where they can effectively work in their home without the fuel costs that traditional lighting involves. Like the article said, one woman with the lights noticed her children had dramatically improved grades because they had the opportunity to study at home.
Because the alligators made the mistake of eating the bottom half of the on call sysadmin before he fixed their server.
Is your naughty bit a 1 or a 0?
They are attempting to calculate the best approach to getting fresh food in their bowl based on your mood and their own. Do they howl until you give in? A little mewl and a flick of the tail? A pur and flop next to the bowl so that you notice it is empty while giving a belly rub? That little head butt thing that says "you one of my people and thats cool with me"? Do they sit on your dinner plate? Do they walk up to a glass of grape juice, look you in the eye and then knock it onto the carpet?
Its already been at least 10 years since we had one of those.
Sounds delicious!
If you want your wife to swing that way, she should feel like she is the hottest one in the room. That way she she will feel more secure and hopefully have just as much fun as you do.
No. It means that the ritual itself provides a placebo effect on a subconscious level even if you consciously know it is a placebo. The study does validate bunk medical treatments in any way.
I utterly hate going to doctors, I was very ill for a long time due to the misdiagnosis and incompetent treatment by my doctors. But even I know that medicine produces real results.
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Well done sir! Your post made me feel better than my daily session of Healing Touch therapy.
Is that what they are calling it these days?
They call it the war on drugs for a reason.
Do we really want to
At the moment, cash is basically the only (mostly) anonymous means of payment available. Since when is less anonymous is a good idea?
Since we decided that this whole freedom thing that those hippies who founded this nation so adored was over rated. And then we decided to try out a fascist police state and corporate kleptocracy run by a class of people who have the right to be given more money, not for work, but because they already have a lot of money.
Hey now, that is a job for Al Gore.
Off the bar? No, it could be intended as payment. Off the floor? Absolutely, you don't leave money you care about on the floor.
giggity.
right. And a passcode in sms plain text transmitted by a tower with range of dozens of miles is so secure.
If you know who is suspect and have good version control, you can use identify any changes that they made and start looking for problems there. It won't be 100% sure because they there is always a possibility that you don't suspect the right people.
I think it would be very distracting to blow while driving. Its bad enough being blown while driving.
The latency on the sat link will kill your reaction time in online FPS's.
As a woman reader of /., no, I would not have reacted that way.....of course, IRL... /. women have just a hard of time finding a date as /. men do. :)
blasphemy! you have your choice of anonymous cowards, overweight otaku, guys hiding in their parents basement, and insecure guys who start every conversation by telling you that they are a genius... oh.
Good luck, my random stranger.
At some point you have to decide if the damage she does to you is worth it. I put my foot down and told her she had to stop hurting me (mostly through her own guilt and self destruction) or else. So she changed, got worse, and now I am free from her. She is some other suckers problem now.
You forgot a US corp pimping children to afghan warlords to win a contract and related coverup.
I thought the most barbaric thing to come out of this story is that a US corp pimped children out to afghan warlords to secure a contract and the US government is covering it up and not holding anyone responsible?
Try reading a few more sentences. He states the windows virus problem is mostly resulting from its dominance as a monoculture. That mac or linux would have much more malware than they do now if they had 90% market share.