Not actually, you're just making a huge assumption.
Giant factory farms are far, far more efficient users of energy and fuel than small family farms, it's simple economies of scale. Giant container ships are astonishingly cheap fuelwise, compared to trucks, so are trains.
So yes, if you live near a giant factory farm, by all means buy local. Everyone else is probably better off buying from a specialized producer.
Look, the grocery business is the most cutthroat in the world, operating huge supermarkets at margins of 1/2 percent sometimes. Nobody in that chain is 'eating' costs that they don't have to. And next time you're there, check and see where most of your produce comes from most of the year. Usually, it's going to be 000's of miles away.
Not to mention that there are precisely 2 points on the moon that have both a) a constant line of sight to Earth, and b) constant line of sight to the sun (ie power): the poles. Whatever nation occupies those poles with its stations will have a strategic advantage over all latecomers to the regular use of near-earth space.
If people at this point don't understand that there are PAID individuals (by the thousands) who will fill forums with whatever you want, vote whatever you want on whatever online poll, and generally astroturfing the shit out of anything of any actual value whatsoever (and a fairly large amount of stuff that DOESN'T matter, as well), then they're so oblivious and stupid that they shouldn't be allowed to care for themselves, much less handle money or purchases.
The greatest labor-saving devices generally have been devices that have directly reduced the amount of work generally considered "for women" such as the Refrigerator, Clothes Washer, and Vacuum Cleaner, not to mention birth control pills giving women more control over their own reproduction than ever in history.
Yes curiously, women seem to bitch more than ever about how miserable they are.
Now all we need to do is get that mass facial recognition tech enabled, and dovetailed with the personal-info databases in the NSA, then we don't have to "worry" about "protesters" ever again!
Your first statement is simply wrong. If more guns cause more violence, please, point out the abundant shootings that take place at gun shows. Certainly, there can be no higher density of weaponry anywhere? I think we all know that the Swiss all have guns in their homes, or nearly all. Lots of shootings there?
The rest of your premises that follow therefrom are equally wrong.
You're using a story about the metric system's attachment to an utterly arbitrary unit of measure as the spot you're going to stand and shake your finger at the Imperial system? The metric system is JUST as arbitrary.
And if you're going to go with the "well everyone else uses it, let's stop confusing the system" then I'd suggest we also work on getting rid of all those pesky foreign languages and make everyone speak English, for precisely the same reason.
Frankly, if we had evidence that there is a civilization with the tech to build a Dyson Sphere out there, I'd be terrified.
I'm not optimistic that all civilizations at that level of tech will somehow magically be all peaceful and loving. Life is struggle, and anything that "wins" at evolution has to be a tremendous competitor.
I think his point was more about the 'boutique' environmentalism of the 1%ers. Driving a Prius would count, as I understand their eco impact is only dubiously positive when you consider the entire lifespan of the car from origin to disposal (note, of course, that this neglects the opportunity-benefit, which is clear: even if dubious net value, it's still BETTER than a normal gasoline car). Or the "I'm going to have our gardeners water the lawn only every OTHER day to save resources" when in fact their lifestyle in general is so consumptive and wasteful that such trivialities are mere window-dressing to assuage (one hopes) their faint sense of guilt.
While their technical competence is unmatched, Germans are not famous for their flexibility. My basis in fact?
I've worked for a German firm for 25 years, and their initial response when a customer has a problem with the product is "they're probably using it wrong". Then our newer techs reflexively simply disbelieve that there could be a technical flaw.
My wife worked as a phone systems admin and she said that in her experience Rolm were great phones...as long as you used them exactly the way that they expected you to. If you had a different need, or wanted a slightly different configuration, first you had to convince their techs WHY you needed it, and if they thought it 'valid' you could get their grudging help in the very, very complicated process of change.
SAP = astonishingly capable business software, if you're capable of pounding the 'square peg' of your business into the 'round hole' of their approach. Example? I can tell when one of our customers has SAP because suddenly all their PO#s are 10 digits, starting with 45000...
First, you say "two wrongs don't make a right" (which I agree with, btw), but then you go on to excuse Clinton for being a conniving scumbag because it's needed to get rich, and you have to play "the game".
Lots of tap-dancing there. If you don't believe that the point of the home server was to contravene disclosure laws then I suppose you extended the same benefit of the doubt to the Bush II crew when THEY tried this using gmail, and got caught too?
...the point is her fundamental dishonesty, disregard for the rules that apply to 'little people', and flippant mendacity when it came to being confronted on the subject.
Of course, flagrant violation of security rules like this would get you or me thrown in prison.
As much as the Republican presidential contest is a clown car, the Democrats have perhaps an even more difficult choice: goofy or sleazy, pick one.
I'd be happy to have a car "automated enough" to drive by itself on the boring, shitty parts of driving where you're likely to fall asleep - dull, EASY stretches of highway. That's pretty much the 80% target the automated cars are at today. I wouldn't even mind if it drove half speed, since I could be reading/working/sleeping while sitting there.
If we wait until AI has mastered the complicated, cluttered, HARD bits of driving in cities, construction zones, neighborhoods, etc it'll never happen.
It's just a problem of having appropriate systems to awake/alert the driver before the AI disengages, and/or fallbacks like pullouts where cars can go when their driver ISN'T responding.
Then again, the only thing more pathetic than buying Playboy for their tepid, over-airbrushed nudes would be Playboy with "clothed women in provocative poses"
Seriously, isn't that Maxim? Who the hell buys their circulation of 2.5 million?
Except that one could persuasively argue that non-lethal force then VALIDATES and encourages easy escalation of force to those levels which is (likely) often unwarranted.
"I'm just going to taze him, it's not like it's going to kill him"
I truly wonder what would happen on the large scale if we took non-lethal force away from cops. My guess is a large swath of shootings as criminals 'tested' to see what they could get away with, or didn't believe that things were now lethally dangerous again, but eventually I suspect cops would get fewer challenges.
And lest we forget, as "broken" as people perceive the US system to be, violent crimes have been steadily decreasing to their lowest levels in 30-40 years. Exclude urban minorities, and the crime/violence rate in the rest of the US compares very reasonably with the rest of the developed world.
Compounded certainly by the relatively well-documented issue about people who feel they're doing "their part" (driving green cars, using shopping totes, whole foods customers, etc.) being entitled assholes.
No, I don't support him not *specifically* because he's a declared socialist (although that's comparable intellectually to a creationist in my book) but because of his stated policies on pretty nearly every issue.
Except, that's sort of the second-order point here: that what is ostensibly a clear situation that would cause anyone to feel sympathy for the women on the face of it, is clouded by the feminist overreach that calls ANY approach to intimacy and indeed ALL hetero sex as sexual assault and rape.
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Not actually, you're just making a huge assumption.
Giant factory farms are far, far more efficient users of energy and fuel than small family farms, it's simple economies of scale.
Giant container ships are astonishingly cheap fuelwise, compared to trucks, so are trains.
So yes, if you live near a giant factory farm, by all means buy local.
Everyone else is probably better off buying from a specialized producer.
Look, the grocery business is the most cutthroat in the world, operating huge supermarkets at margins of 1/2 percent sometimes. Nobody in that chain is 'eating' costs that they don't have to. And next time you're there, check and see where most of your produce comes from most of the year. Usually, it's going to be 000's of miles away.
I really don't understand our urgent need to try to mimic the lifestyles of people that commonly lived only to their mid-30s, maybe 40s.
Not to mention that there are precisely 2 points on the moon that have both a) a constant line of sight to Earth, and b) constant line of sight to the sun (ie power): the poles.
Whatever nation occupies those poles with its stations will have a strategic advantage over all latecomers to the regular use of near-earth space.
It's 2015.
If people at this point don't understand that there are PAID individuals (by the thousands) who will fill forums with whatever you want, vote whatever you want on whatever online poll, and generally astroturfing the shit out of anything of any actual value whatsoever (and a fairly large amount of stuff that DOESN'T matter, as well), then they're so oblivious and stupid that they shouldn't be allowed to care for themselves, much less handle money or purchases.
The greatest labor-saving devices generally have been devices that have directly reduced the amount of work generally considered "for women" such as the Refrigerator, Clothes Washer, and
Vacuum Cleaner, not to mention birth control pills giving women more control over their own reproduction than ever in history.
Yes curiously, women seem to bitch more than ever about how miserable they are.
It's a fucking tech site; you'd think we could at least agree here that "hacking" is not the same thing as "repairing".
And for God's sake, attaching a tool at the end of 3m pole to clear some debris isn't hacking in ANY sense.
Great!
Now all we need to do is get that mass facial recognition tech enabled, and dovetailed with the personal-info databases in the NSA, then we don't have to "worry" about "protesters" ever again!
Your first statement is simply wrong.
If more guns cause more violence, please, point out the abundant shootings that take place at gun shows. Certainly, there can be no higher density of weaponry anywhere?
I think we all know that the Swiss all have guns in their homes, or nearly all. Lots of shootings there?
The rest of your premises that follow therefrom are equally wrong.
You're using a story about the metric system's attachment to an utterly arbitrary unit of measure as the spot you're going to stand and shake your finger at the Imperial system? The metric system is JUST as arbitrary.
And if you're going to go with the "well everyone else uses it, let's stop confusing the system" then I'd suggest we also work on getting rid of all those pesky foreign languages and make everyone speak English, for precisely the same reason.
Frankly, if we had evidence that there is a civilization with the tech to build a Dyson Sphere out there, I'd be terrified.
I'm not optimistic that all civilizations at that level of tech will somehow magically be all peaceful and loving. Life is struggle, and anything that "wins" at evolution has to be a tremendous competitor.
I think his point was more about the 'boutique' environmentalism of the 1%ers.
Driving a Prius would count, as I understand their eco impact is only dubiously positive when you consider the entire lifespan of the car from origin to disposal (note, of course, that this neglects the opportunity-benefit, which is clear: even if dubious net value, it's still BETTER than a normal gasoline car).
Or the "I'm going to have our gardeners water the lawn only every OTHER day to save resources" when in fact their lifestyle in general is so consumptive and wasteful that such trivialities are mere window-dressing to assuage (one hopes) their faint sense of guilt.
Seriously, ANOTHER thread about Hilary Clinton?
While their technical competence is unmatched, Germans are not famous for their flexibility.
My basis in fact?
I've worked for a German firm for 25 years, and their initial response when a customer has a problem with the product is "they're probably using it wrong". Then our newer techs reflexively simply disbelieve that there could be a technical flaw.
My wife worked as a phone systems admin and she said that in her experience Rolm were great phones...as long as you used them exactly the way that they expected you to. If you had a different need, or wanted a slightly different configuration, first you had to convince their techs WHY you needed it, and if they thought it 'valid' you could get their grudging help in the very, very complicated process of change.
SAP = astonishingly capable business software, if you're capable of pounding the 'square peg' of your business into the 'round hole' of their approach. Example? I can tell when one of our customers has SAP because suddenly all their PO#s are 10 digits, starting with 45000...
Sorry, but you're contradicting yourself.
First, you say "two wrongs don't make a right" (which I agree with, btw), but then you go on to excuse Clinton for being a conniving scumbag because it's needed to get rich, and you have to play "the game".
Which is it?
Lots of tap-dancing there.
If you don't believe that the point of the home server was to contravene disclosure laws then I suppose you extended the same benefit of the doubt to the Bush II crew when THEY tried this using gmail, and got caught too?
...the point is her fundamental dishonesty, disregard for the rules that apply to 'little people', and flippant mendacity when it came to being confronted on the subject.
Of course, flagrant violation of security rules like this would get you or me thrown in prison.
As much as the Republican presidential contest is a clown car, the Democrats have perhaps an even more difficult choice: goofy or sleazy, pick one.
I did finally hear a good reason to vote for Trump, for once:
http://i.imgur.com/wVkmhzL.png
I'd be happy to have a car "automated enough" to drive by itself on the boring, shitty parts of driving where you're likely to fall asleep - dull, EASY stretches of highway. That's pretty much the 80% target the automated cars are at today. I wouldn't even mind if it drove half speed, since I could be reading/working/sleeping while sitting there.
If we wait until AI has mastered the complicated, cluttered, HARD bits of driving in cities, construction zones, neighborhoods, etc it'll never happen.
It's just a problem of having appropriate systems to awake/alert the driver before the AI disengages, and/or fallbacks like pullouts where cars can go when their driver ISN'T responding.
Obligatory: WoW "The Internet is for Porn"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then again, the only thing more pathetic than buying Playboy for their tepid, over-airbrushed nudes would be Playboy with "clothed women in provocative poses"
Seriously, isn't that Maxim? Who the hell buys their circulation of 2.5 million?
...to insist the world work the way you believe it should work.
Too bad that Capitalism will kick your ass.
You sound like Dr Evil, thinking $1 million is real money.
Overall spending, 2012 Presidential Election:
Dems: $964 million
Repubs $1.12 billion
(https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/)
Yes, when the amount you've raised is 1/1000 what EITHER candidate in 2012 spent, that is precisely a "sneezing at" amount. It's nothing.
Except that one could persuasively argue that non-lethal force then VALIDATES and encourages easy escalation of force to those levels which is (likely) often unwarranted.
"I'm just going to taze him, it's not like it's going to kill him"
I truly wonder what would happen on the large scale if we took non-lethal force away from cops.
My guess is a large swath of shootings as criminals 'tested' to see what they could get away with, or didn't believe that things were now lethally dangerous again, but eventually I suspect cops would get fewer challenges.
And lest we forget, as "broken" as people perceive the US system to be, violent crimes have been steadily decreasing to their lowest levels in 30-40 years.
Exclude urban minorities, and the crime/violence rate in the rest of the US compares very reasonably with the rest of the developed world.
Compounded certainly by the relatively well-documented issue about people who feel they're doing "their part" (driving green cars, using shopping totes, whole foods customers, etc.) being entitled assholes.
No, I don't support him not *specifically* because he's a declared socialist (although that's comparable intellectually to a creationist in my book) but because of his stated policies on pretty nearly every issue.
Except, that's sort of the second-order point here: that what is ostensibly a clear situation that would cause anyone to feel sympathy for the women on the face of it, is clouded by the feminist overreach that calls ANY approach to intimacy and indeed ALL hetero sex as sexual assault and rape.
Diesels naturally produce more particulates and NOx, neither of which is particularly controlled in the EU.
Or, you could just google it, like I did:
http://www.torquenews.com/1083...