Why not, you make backups on tape and store them in a safe deposit box or fireproof safe. It's a great way to store data. If it's in a good environment it'll last 30 years.
It doesn't really matter much how good of a job you do, as long as you look better than your co-workers. So, stab them in the back to succeed in this environment. Make them look bad.
What will happen is the world will end up very crowded. And hungry. We can barely feed ourselves now. Climate change will make it even dicier in the future. If people stop dying we're in trouble.
This kind of research can also be used to counter what the marketers are doing. If there are recognizable techniques being used based on this research they can be jammed/subverted. Look at what the good folks at Adbusters are doing.
There are countries growing and using it. The US imports hundreds of millions of dollars worth every year, mostly from Spain and Canada. One of the problems is that the infrastructure for processing it is nonexistant because of the illegality of it.
0.25 percent of donors contribute 80% of the campaign funds used by political candidates. They expect something back for that contribution. How is the common person going to match that kind of political influence? It's no wonder peole don't vote, they can't compete with the corporations or the elites that control the political process.
Green Revolution is Not Sustainable
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The problem with industrial agriculture is that it is reliant on petrochemicals to provide the synthetic fertilizer. It's energy and resource intensive. The fuel is not going to last forever, and the creation of the fertilizer is causing direct harm to the biosphere, which will prevent crop growth no matter how much fertilizer you put on it.
The problem with the green revolution is that it's dependant on petrochemicals to produce the fertilizer. It's not a sustainable method, we're mining our food from the ground and it's gonna run out sooner rather than later.
I wish I saved some mod points for this post, it was a real gem. I would like to add a quote from Edward Abbey:
"One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards." ~ "Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-- a reluctant enthusiast...a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So go out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, and bag the peaks.... and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over your enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box... I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards."
Hell yea! I'm out hiking/camping/fishing every weekend that I can. The geek in me likes to view the animals and plants, breaking out the guidebook and figuring out what they are. Fly fishing, tying my own flies - it's much better than sitting in front of a computer screen if the weather is nice.
(humans are by nature selfish and any system which rewards selfishness will thrive while systems that concentrate selfishness in the hands of a few are instable -- so capitalism works, communism doesn't)
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Isn't this exactly what capitalism does, concentrate selfishness in the hands a few? Just a handfull of people control the lions share of money. There's not a whole lot of difference between what the USSR was and is, and what we've been all along. Communism just collapsed earlier
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Then something that is actually flesh and blood and looks vaguely like us can be a person.
Why not, you make backups on tape and store them in a safe deposit box or fireproof safe. It's a great way to store data. If it's in a good environment it'll last 30 years.
It doesn't really matter much how good of a job you do, as long as you look better than your co-workers. So, stab them in the back to succeed in this environment. Make them look bad.
The settled for 500 MILLION. Isn't that proof?
I'm not surprised. Money is corrosive to good.
What kind of conceivable emergency would effect the entire country? Nuclear war?
What will happen is the world will end up very crowded. And hungry. We can barely feed ourselves now. Climate change will make it even dicier in the future. If people stop dying we're in trouble.
I think it's just different colored sand, you can see individual dunes. sort of like White Sands, NM.
This kind of research can also be used to counter what the marketers are doing. If there are recognizable techniques being used based on this research they can be jammed/subverted. Look at what the good folks at Adbusters are doing.
There are countries growing and using it. The US imports hundreds of millions of dollars worth every year, mostly from Spain and Canada. One of the problems is that the infrastructure for processing it is nonexistant because of the illegality of it.
0.25 percent of donors contribute 80% of the campaign funds used by political candidates. They expect something back for that contribution. How is the common person going to match that kind of political influence? It's no wonder peole don't vote, they can't compete with the corporations or the elites that control the political process.
The problem with industrial agriculture is that it is reliant on petrochemicals to provide the synthetic fertilizer. It's energy and resource intensive. The fuel is not going to last forever, and the creation of the fertilizer is causing direct harm to the biosphere, which will prevent crop growth no matter how much fertilizer you put on it.
The problem with the green revolution is that it's dependant on petrochemicals to produce the fertilizer. It's not a sustainable method, we're mining our food from the ground and it's gonna run out sooner rather than later.
I wish I saved some mod points for this post, it was a real gem. I would like to add a quote from Edward Abbey:
"One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards."
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"Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-- a reluctant enthusiast...a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So go out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, and bag the peaks.... and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over your enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box... I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards."
Hell yea! I'm out hiking/camping/fishing every weekend that I can. The geek in me likes to view the animals and plants, breaking out the guidebook and figuring out what they are. Fly fishing, tying my own flies - it's much better than sitting in front of a computer screen if the weather is nice.
(humans are by nature selfish and any system which rewards selfishness will thrive while systems that concentrate selfishness in the hands of a few are instable -- so capitalism works, communism doesn't)
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Isn't this exactly what capitalism does, concentrate selfishness in the hands a few? Just a handfull of people control the lions share of money. There's not a whole lot of difference between what the USSR was and is, and what we've been all along. Communism just collapsed earlier