Something similar just happened in Nepal. The UK raised a huge food and materials drive that positioned hundreds of tone of relief supplies at a military base in Yorkshire, ready to be sent in. It's still all sitting there. Apparently Nepal wants to charge customs duty of 30% on all the relief supplies that are coming into the country.
If we get low cost to LEO and baseload batteries out of Musk's efforts, then he is making much better use of any government money than the government is.
"Some people do not like the idea of putting "franken-food" in their bodies."
So any genetics label on products should include all genetic techniques. Let every package say "Genetically modified with Mendelian technology!"
And should we even allow food labels that actually harm the environment? My unfavorite is that "Wild Caught" that the unenlightened look for on their fish. Since ocean fish depletion is one of the most easily provable impacts man has on natural systems, people who value an ethic of sustainability ought to be preferentially buying farmed fish.
This is why cable companies need to be treated as utilities. Comcast should be forced to provide service to any customer in an exclusive franchise area.
The most important tenet of the Church of Warminetics is not merely that manmade carbon is warming us up, but that there's nothing we can do about it. "Geoengineering" for the carbon already in the atmosphere doesn't have to mean a trillion dollars worth of mirrors in space. It can be as simple as repeating the successful Haida experiment on a larger scale.
Meanwhile, the acolytes are busy taking credits for all unusual weather events, anywhere in the world. At the moment the Pacific Rim is in an El Niño cycle, bringing torrential rain to Chile and a soggy American Southwest. So right now the Warmists who spent the last five years predicting drought everywhere are taking credit for every drop of rain in Texas.
You may remember when this tactic was tried with the ozone hole. As the hole expended the Greens intoned that even if we repented and stopped using air conditioning immediately, we would fry for generations to come. What actually happened was that we made a minor change in the formulation of our refrigerants, the hole closed up, and was never heard from again. We will never know whether that was correlation or causation.
The only mandate needed is for the official system of measure to be metric. The common culture will then follow on its own pace. Your beans will come in a half-kilo can, but nobody is going to force you to use expressions like "the whole 8.2296 meters."
All that metrication means for each product is that its size is a round number in a metric unit, like the 2l soda bottle. The imperial size of everything is still available as a small-print fraction. Your one-pound can of beans will become slightly heavier as a half-kilo can.
There is a similar argument we hear every year when the Nobel Economics Prize is won by someone politically incorrect. Get over it, Sheldon: the Economics Prize is a real Nobel Prize, and Celsius is part of the metric system.
The UK went metric in 1973, but the public still uses imperial colloquially, and there are even a few instances of pre-imperial units. The "stone" (6.35 kg) is still used for - and only for - weighing humans. On my recent hike there, I encountered a road sign in furlongs in the town of Kirkeby Stephen.
"I was in grade school when Jimmy Carter was president" I was in high school (Norwalk, CA) when JFK was president, and we had intensive metric education. In that time of scientific optimism, everybody assumed that metrication was just around the corner..
If you're not American, you may not get my reference. In the late Forties, Disney released an early animated feature called "Song of the South." It was held to be so racist that ever since, Disney corporate has tried to suppress any knowledge that it ever existed. You can still get Disney backlist features from the period like "Fantasia," but just not this one.
Anti-vax sentiment on the right is a vestigial part of the fad diet movement, like Dr. Mercola. It doesn't even have fundie megabucks behind it, let alone Hollywood gigabucks.
In today's society, European church taxes are deemed to be an expression of cultural identification in countries that have 'official' churches (Church of England, Dutch Reformed Church, et. al.) The tax for maintaining that church is supposed to be a minor element of cultural identity, not, as in medieval times, a requirement to follow the faith.
Official churches of this type are what is explicitly forbidden in our First Amendment.
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So the Kardashians my represent some alien's long-ago attempt to communicate with us?
Something similar just happened in Nepal. The UK raised a huge food and materials drive that positioned hundreds of tone of relief supplies at a military base in Yorkshire, ready to be sent in. It's still all sitting there. Apparently Nepal wants to charge customs duty of 30% on all the relief supplies that are coming into the country.
"And you could move to a country that has 100% tax. North Korea comes to mind."
But Massachusetts has way better food.
Betcha the real target was done in some totally different manner. The public trumpeting will freeze ISIS' use of social media.
" It's also possible that U.S. intelligence could have actively engaged with the original poster in order to draw out information."
Probably using the standard police technique of posing as a small boy.
"Next time I see some dipshit open-carrying his rifle into Chipotle, I'm going to sneak up on him in the parking lot and tackle him. "
Here in Arizona, you would be known as a 'target'.
If we get low cost to LEO and baseload batteries out of Musk's efforts, then he is making much better use of any government money than the government is.
"We outsourced the program..."
Our data has been renditioned.
"Some people do not like the idea of putting "franken-food" in their bodies."
So any genetics label on products should include all genetic techniques. Let every package say "Genetically modified with Mendelian technology!"
And should we even allow food labels that actually harm the environment? My unfavorite is that "Wild Caught" that the unenlightened look for on their fish. Since ocean fish depletion is one of the most easily provable impacts man has on natural systems, people who value an ethic of sustainability ought to be preferentially buying farmed fish.
This is why cable companies need to be treated as utilities. Comcast should be forced to provide service to any customer in an exclusive franchise area.
The most important tenet of the Church of Warminetics is not merely that manmade carbon is warming us up, but that there's nothing we can do about it. "Geoengineering" for the carbon already in the atmosphere doesn't have to mean a trillion dollars worth of mirrors in space. It can be as simple as repeating the successful Haida experiment on a larger scale.
Meanwhile, the acolytes are busy taking credits for all unusual weather events, anywhere in the world. At the moment the Pacific Rim is in an El Niño cycle, bringing torrential rain to Chile and a soggy American Southwest. So right now the Warmists who spent the last five years predicting drought everywhere are taking credit for every drop of rain in Texas.
You may remember when this tactic was tried with the ozone hole. As the hole expended the Greens intoned that even if we repented and stopped using air conditioning immediately, we would fry for generations to come. What actually happened was that we made a minor change in the formulation of our refrigerants, the hole closed up, and was never heard from again. We will never know whether that was correlation or causation.
Meanwhile, how are those sunspot numbers coming along?
I loved Athens, the islands, and the Greco-Roman antiquities of the Turkish coast (May, 2001).
The only mandate needed is for the official system of measure to be metric. The common culture will then follow on its own pace. Your beans will come in a half-kilo can, but nobody is going to force you to use expressions like "the whole 8.2296 meters."
...It's not possible to "steal" Netflix. All users are paying for it.
"If metric is so awesome why aren't computers 10 based?"
Eons ago, when I was young, I actually used one of these: the IBM 1410 business mainframe.
The metric shitload really exists, and is one stere (1 cubic meter).
All that metrication means for each product is that its size is a round number in a metric unit, like the 2l soda bottle. The imperial size of everything is still available as a small-print fraction. Your one-pound can of beans will become slightly heavier as a half-kilo can.
"Celsius isn't REALLY metric"
There is a similar argument we hear every year when the Nobel Economics Prize is won by someone politically incorrect. Get over it, Sheldon: the Economics Prize is a real Nobel Prize, and Celsius is part of the metric system.
The UK went metric in 1973, but the public still uses imperial colloquially, and there are even a few instances of pre-imperial units. The "stone" (6.35 kg) is still used for - and only for - weighing humans. On my recent hike there, I encountered a road sign in furlongs in the town of Kirkeby Stephen.
"I was in grade school when Jimmy Carter was president"
I was in high school (Norwalk, CA) when JFK was president, and we had intensive metric education. In that time of scientific optimism, everybody assumed that metrication was just around the corner..
If you're not American, you may not get my reference. In the late Forties, Disney released an early animated feature called "Song of the South." It was held to be so racist that ever since, Disney corporate has tried to suppress any knowledge that it ever existed. You can still get Disney backlist features from the period like "Fantasia," but just not this one.
This high-priced American export tech was destroyed by repeated errors in metric/imperial conversion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
The Martians haven't stopped laughing at us since.
Anti-vax sentiment on the right is a vestigial part of the fad diet movement, like Dr. Mercola. It doesn't even have fundie megabucks behind it, let alone Hollywood gigabucks.
In today's society, European church taxes are deemed to be an expression of cultural identification in countries that have 'official' churches (Church of England, Dutch Reformed Church, et. al.) The tax for maintaining that church is supposed to be a minor element of cultural identity, not, as in medieval times, a requirement to follow the faith.
Official churches of this type are what is explicitly forbidden in our First Amendment.