There's already a federal tax, $10.00/oz for medical use and $100.00/oz for recreational use if memory serves me correctly; I believe it's from the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Many states also have their own taxes.
Cocaine's last legal use was for a dental anesthetic and that was ended ages ago; if you build hydroponic production sheds for coca cultivation, the intended purpose was for something more nefarious than pharmaceutical production. My magic 8 ball says the DEA is getting tired of the new strains of "Roundup Ready" coca and is getting serious about eradication.
Granted, I'm from Canada, and its more of a problem here since the taxes on cigs more directly pay the health care bills of the folks sucking them back, but still, our cig tax is higher, and still not high enough.... It has gotten so bad that they're close to letting doctors here in a lot of provinces refuse to treat you if you smoke, purely on the basis that you smoke. Its actually a fair policy.... I'm not saying ban it,....
Why not just go Red Queen on their asses and put them out of their misery quick?
/. version 'comb through' the files to ensure lives are not placed at risk. TFA version comb through them to ensure Afghan lives were not put at risk They aren't even pretending to protect individual NATO Soldiers.
How about the 13th amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Seems like the Government is compelling persons and organizations to act as its agent without consent or valuable consideration here. Ever try to get a court transcript, they are expensive as hell, you pay per page; not to mention compensation for searching for the data to print, that has to be worth $150.00-450.00 per hour. From 2003 to 2006 the bureau issued 192,499 national security letter requests., I doubt we paid the going rate for all of this data!
The main reason the areas that need water, need water is because they are located in a desert belt, caused by Hadley Cell" circulation which is dry and results in little rainfall. Desalinated water is not salt free like rain is so if you use desalinated water for irrigation, eventually the land will build up salt and the crops will fail. Australia has 84,700,000 hectares of salinised soil already; Africa 69,500,000.
The data from GISS weather stations is pretty rotten in the arctic, DMI, Danish Meteorological Institute is much better, Air temperatures are primarily below freezing now, water temps guessed at between 0 and 3.4C, nobody seems to have anything working in the area of interest.
The biggest ships on the lakes are 1250 ft freighters, but the Welland canal is the choke point, Length 261.8, Width 24.4m, Depth 8.2 so towing it there would be a no-go. If I were tasked to do it and had reasonable resources; I'd melt it from the middle with a nuclear reactor and transfer the water to conventional tankers for transport. Maybe just put a flotation collar around one of these babies.
Humans, unfortunately, are not very good at evolving - esp. in modern societies.
Maybe so but Human are much better at thinking of ways to make evolution unnecessary, and getting Humans to think alike is like herding cats; some is going to figure it out, some are not.
That would be correct if the assumptions are correct, such as 1. the rate of warming is 2C/100yr from a linear base rather than a 0.12C increase from a double sinusoidal base with periods of 30 and 60 years, 2. the rate of warming will remain constant or increase for centuries rather than running into an increasing negative feedback; 3. that the marginal effect of each increment of CO2 increase is the same rather than diminishing.
You can withhold consent to be body scanned by the TSA by simply not traveling by air, try telling a judge your not going to honor a court summons because you don't want to be body scanned by the US Maeshalls!
Unless they hit Germany and the radioactive wild pigs become sentient, hack into the EU's carbon trading system and make enough money to buy their own Island near the island of Doctor Moreau.
Well normally the sun does this quite regularly (it has been pretty quiet in recent years), but the Earth is a tiny speck in a great big sphere of space so it usually doesn't come directly at us.
It doesn't, the Wild Boar population increase is due to primarily milder winters, and that's independent of the the fallout from Cherynobl. There might be some cross-over from fewer people not hunting because the pigs are radioactive and inedible, but mostly it's just coincidence. I'm surprised nobody has cued up the AGW band yet.
Clearly you have never been interrogated by a professional interrogator, I have, it's uncanny what they can get you to remember in exquisite detail and how quickly they can zero in on a subject that interests them. Give them a tool like a polygraph and their interrogation abilities increase by a factor of ten. FBI polygraphers are required to re-qualify periodically, if you get a chance to be a test subject take it and you'll be impressed.
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Gun laws are pretty hard to enforce when the police have 9mm pistols and shotguns and the criminals have AK47s and RPG's.
There's already a federal tax, $10.00/oz for medical use and $100.00/oz for recreational use if memory serves me correctly; I believe it's from the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Many states also have their own taxes.
Cocaine's last legal use was for a dental anesthetic and that was ended ages ago; if you build hydroponic production sheds for coca cultivation, the intended purpose was for something more nefarious than pharmaceutical production. My magic 8 ball says the DEA is getting tired of the new strains of "Roundup Ready" coca and is getting serious about eradication.
Granted, I'm from Canada, and its more of a problem here since the taxes on cigs more directly pay the health care bills of the folks sucking them back, but still, our cig tax is higher, and still not high enough. ... ... ... .
It has gotten so bad that they're close to letting doctors here in a lot of provinces refuse to treat you if you smoke, purely on the basis that you smoke. Its actually a fair policy.
I'm not saying ban it,
Why not just go Red Queen on their asses and put them out of their misery quick?
BASIC was designed in 1964, well before the computers you mentioned, '64 is punched card era and magnetic core memory.
/. version 'comb through' the files to ensure lives are not placed at risk.
TFA version comb through them to ensure Afghan lives were not put at risk
They aren't even pretending to protect individual NATO Soldiers.
How about the 13th amendment:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Seems like the Government is compelling persons and organizations to act as its agent without consent or valuable consideration here. Ever try to get a court transcript, they are expensive as hell, you pay per page; not to mention compensation for searching for the data to print, that has to be worth $150.00-450.00 per hour. From 2003 to 2006 the bureau issued 192,499 national security letter requests., I doubt we paid the going rate for all of this data!
Forget about a "change we can believe in" and try a little "I can see November from my house" instead.
I aced a microbiology course by simply standing up during lecture, you can't fall asleep while standing.
The main reason the areas that need water, need water is because they are located in a desert belt, caused by Hadley Cell" circulation which is dry and results in little rainfall. Desalinated water is not salt free like rain is so if you use desalinated water for irrigation, eventually the land will build up salt and the crops will fail. Australia has 84,700,000 hectares of salinised soil already; Africa 69,500,000.
The data from GISS weather stations is pretty rotten in the arctic, DMI, Danish Meteorological Institute is much better, Air temperatures are primarily below freezing now, water temps guessed at between 0 and 3.4C, nobody seems to have anything working in the area of interest.
The biggest ships on the lakes are 1250 ft freighters, but the Welland canal is the choke point, Length 261.8, Width 24.4m, Depth 8.2 so towing it there would be a no-go. If I were tasked to do it and had reasonable resources; I'd melt it from the middle with a nuclear reactor and transfer the water to conventional tankers for transport. Maybe just put a flotation collar around one of these babies.
"Greenland is great! There is a horny chick behind every tree!" I think my recruiter said that first.
I'm from Detroit, we don't fling poo, we fling octopus you insensitive clod
We're getting off light, Snow in Brazil, below zero Celsius in the River Plate and tropical fish frozen, 1 Million Fish Dead in Bolivian Ecological Disaster (3 Aug. 2010 - Update: The number of dead fish and other water-dependent wildlife has increased to about 6 million.) watch the video, the images transcend any language barrier. While it's been cool in North America, a -16F temp anomaly isn't as devastating in the temperate regions as the -10C anomaly in the tropics and equatorial regions.
I guess that this must be a sign the AGW is over then?
Humans, unfortunately, are not very good at evolving - esp. in modern societies.
Maybe so but Human are much better at thinking of ways to make evolution unnecessary, and getting Humans to think alike is like herding cats; some is going to figure it out, some are not.
That would be correct if the assumptions are correct, such as
1. the rate of warming is 2C/100yr from a linear base rather than a 0.12C increase from a double sinusoidal base with periods of 30 and 60 years,
2. the rate of warming will remain constant or increase for centuries rather than running into an increasing negative feedback;
3. that the marginal effect of each increment of CO2 increase is the same rather than diminishing.
You can withhold consent to be body scanned by the TSA by simply not traveling by air, try telling a judge your not going to honor a court summons because you don't want to be body scanned by the US Maeshalls!
Unless they hit Germany and the radioactive wild pigs become sentient, hack into the EU's carbon trading system and make enough money to buy their own Island near the island of Doctor Moreau.
Don't need to mine are pre-discombobulating from my cell phone.
Well normally the sun does this quite regularly (it has been pretty quiet in recent years), but the Earth is a tiny speck in a great big sphere of space so it usually doesn't come directly at us.
Not necessarily, parabolic trough concentrators aren't that exotic, there are many DIY examples on youtube.
It doesn't, the Wild Boar population increase is due to primarily milder winters, and that's independent of the the fallout from Cherynobl. There might be some cross-over from fewer people not hunting because the pigs are radioactive and inedible, but mostly it's just coincidence. I'm surprised nobody has cued up the AGW band yet.
Clearly you have never been interrogated by a professional interrogator, I have, it's uncanny what they can get you to remember in exquisite detail and how quickly they can zero in on a subject that interests them. Give them a tool like a polygraph and their interrogation abilities increase by a factor of ten. FBI polygraphers are required to re-qualify periodically, if you get a chance to be a test subject take it and you'll be impressed.