FTS: The idea was that Disney would populate the site with lots of evergreen content aimed at savvy middle class parents
Parenting advice from Disney? Aimed at the "savvy middle class parents"? There are NO savvy parents going to Disney for parenting advice. Disney is for outlandish fantasies to entertain children for a short time, not for parenting, and every *savvy* parent knows this. The idea actually was that Disney would blow smoke up the rear of the gullible and over-privileged, while selling them on more Disney products.
I take it as an encouragement that this project failed. Parents aren't as foolish as Disney had hoped.
Thank you for responding, but that is a benefit to humans for changing the plant. The original question was why hasn't nature found this innovation on its own over millions of years of evolution. My posit was that there was not benefit to the PLANT in being 40% larger.
Dude, do a google search for once. Not doing so is choosing to remain willfully ignorant. Whether they qualify or not, illegal immigrants suck a lot of money out of the social safety net, and there are so many reliable sources reporting it that it is a flat out lie to claim otherwise.
It would be more effective than Sesame Street or Planned Parenthood at doing what they claim to do, and also cost less. And the point IS to force them to come by a different way or carry a ladder. A way that is less convenient.
Really? You're worried about someone dumping sump oil in Yosemite? You do know that with the current coverage by rangers in the park, someone could do that already. And the type of person to do that, when every auto parts store in the nation will take the oil, isn't worried about a park ranger anyway. As the GP said, "Get real you asshole."
Then the Democrats back out of the $25billion plan when a court case went their way and they thought they might get the Dreamer end of the package without having to agree to the fence.
I gave up on "home automation" when X10 was still a thing. The only thing these big players have added beyond clap-on/clap-off is a computer to spy on you. These things claiming to be "AI", yet they haven't the slightest clue that a holiday calls for alternative actions, UNLESS you meticulously program it to have alternative actions on a holiday. "Let's have a party" has completely different meaning to the average socialized human depending on if it is Oct 30 vs Dec 30
Have you not seen how much they charge for those "slightly modified from standards" displays? Google what it would cost to replace the radio console in your car, and you will have the answer to why they don't want to loose the revenue stream.
Remember, they're not designing this for you or I, who can hack in an aftermarket solution. They just want to make things a little inconvenient for the masses who would rather pony up the money.
Or, you could put those same propellers on the balloon (just turn the drone sideways), and add the solar cells directly to the gondola (much simpler than a microwave uplink with tracking). It could easily carry enough solar cells to make it completely self sustaining, remain on station for years, and would me much more fail soft in the event of a propulsion failure. Drones falling from the stratosphere can do great damage.
Citation needed. Specifically, why would there be ANY selective advantage? A tree standing in the sun all day most likely has no need for the extra energy. A plant has to produce enough foliage to gather enough energy to feed its trunk and roots, with enough left over to store around its seeds to give them a start on germination. Is there an advantage in a more efficient cycle that is not easily overcome with a slightly large leaf? How does that advantage stand with respect to the other survival requirements placed on the plant?
Mandatory car analogy: Does it help to upgrade to a bigger engine when you're still running WalMart tires through a GM transmission?
I lean libertarian, but this article indicates that there really is a role for government to play in renewables that does not boil down to the President writing big checks to his political donors. IMHO, one of the proper roles of government is to enable markets. Building a road system enables farmers to bring their crops to the cities, and for cities to sale their manufactured goods to farmers. It doesn't make sense for either group to build the roads by themselves, and having a third party build, own and control the roads puts to much power in the hands of individuals, and creates innefficient roads since the builder would have to negotiate terms with individual land owners to build the roads in the first place.
The current situation with renewables is that small amounts of power are created at different times of the day in different areas. Getting the power from the western plains to the eastern factories to take advantage of all that wind is problematic (drive across Indiana and you see a large portion of the windmills stopped even though the wind is vigorous). The biggest boost the Feds could give to renewables is to put the federal electricity distribution grid on steroids. Once I can sell my wind produced energy on an open market the size of the US, I'd never let them to stop. And I'd probably put up more for even more passive income.
I know there is currently a federal grid, but it should be beefed up and anyone allowed to participate in the market in the same way that anyone can set up a trucking company.
Modern landfills circulate enzymes through the waste so that organic material breaks down into methane, which is then used to fire a small power plant. A better use would be to dump a body into a vat of the stuff. A portion of the gas could be diverted to a gas lamp, with a nice funeral where the bereaved get to observe that the light of the deceased continues to shine (with the remainder of the gas being diverted to power an electric plant, just like the landfills).
Yes, I could. It's easy. Just think of the last time you saw a bloated deer on the side of the highway during the summer. They get hit quite a bit in suburbs that are expanding into rural areas.
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FTS: The idea was that Disney would populate the site with lots of evergreen content aimed at savvy middle class parents
Parenting advice from Disney? Aimed at the "savvy middle class parents"? There are NO savvy parents going to Disney for parenting advice. Disney is for outlandish fantasies to entertain children for a short time, not for parenting, and every *savvy* parent knows this. The idea actually was that Disney would blow smoke up the rear of the gullible and over-privileged, while selling them on more Disney products.
I take it as an encouragement that this project failed. Parents aren't as foolish as Disney had hoped.
Idiot.
I was a back-up driver on a truck in a former life (a summer while in college).
Shotgun itself was the name given to backup driver on a stagecoach that carried a shotgun to defend it. He wasn't shooting at OPINIONS!
Thank you for responding, but that is a benefit to humans for changing the plant. The original question was why hasn't nature found this innovation on its own over millions of years of evolution. My posit was that there was not benefit to the PLANT in being 40% larger.
Yes it would. We could all pretend to work, and our masters pretended to pay us.
The correct person to sue is his harasser.
Where's the profit in that?
Just as soon as you provide proof that you have removed your front door and accepted the illegal immigrants to live with you.
No. Unless, of course, that is what people really wanted.
Dude, do a google search for once. Not doing so is choosing to remain willfully ignorant. Whether they qualify or not, illegal immigrants suck a lot of money out of the social safety net, and there are so many reliable sources reporting it that it is a flat out lie to claim otherwise.
It would be more effective than Sesame Street or Planned Parenthood at doing what they claim to do, and also cost less. And the point IS to force them to come by a different way or carry a ladder. A way that is less convenient.
Really? You're worried about someone dumping sump oil in Yosemite? You do know that with the current coverage by rangers in the park, someone could do that already. And the type of person to do that, when every auto parts store in the nation will take the oil, isn't worried about a park ranger anyway. As the GP said, "Get real you asshole."
Then the Democrats back out of the $25billion plan when a court case went their way and they thought they might get the Dreamer end of the package without having to agree to the fence.
Just like the one in Israel. Wait! No.
Just like the one around Obama's Washington, DC home. Wait! No.
Just like...
Ah, screw it! Saying a wall won't slow people down is patently stupid. You, AC, are the abject failure.
Mitt Romney? Wasn't he that RINO cuck that couldn't stand up to Obama? Why do we care what that limp noodle did?
China has devolved into what all socialist states fall into. An authoritarian government that makes all the capitalistic economic decisions for you.
I gave up on "home automation" when X10 was still a thing. The only thing these big players have added beyond clap-on/clap-off is a computer to spy on you. These things claiming to be "AI", yet they haven't the slightest clue that a holiday calls for alternative actions, UNLESS you meticulously program it to have alternative actions on a holiday. "Let's have a party" has completely different meaning to the average socialized human depending on if it is Oct 30 vs Dec 30
I bet you wear Prada, don't you?
nonpartisan government officials
What is that? Could it be like that elusive "unbiased press" or "rainbow unicorn"?
Have you not seen how much they charge for those "slightly modified from standards" displays? Google what it would cost to replace the radio console in your car, and you will have the answer to why they don't want to loose the revenue stream.
Remember, they're not designing this for you or I, who can hack in an aftermarket solution. They just want to make things a little inconvenient for the masses who would rather pony up the money.
Or, you could put those same propellers on the balloon (just turn the drone sideways), and add the solar cells directly to the gondola (much simpler than a microwave uplink with tracking). It could easily carry enough solar cells to make it completely self sustaining, remain on station for years, and would me much more fail soft in the event of a propulsion failure. Drones falling from the stratosphere can do great damage.
Citation needed. Specifically, why would there be ANY selective advantage? A tree standing in the sun all day most likely has no need for the extra energy. A plant has to produce enough foliage to gather enough energy to feed its trunk and roots, with enough left over to store around its seeds to give them a start on germination. Is there an advantage in a more efficient cycle that is not easily overcome with a slightly large leaf? How does that advantage stand with respect to the other survival requirements placed on the plant?
Mandatory car analogy: Does it help to upgrade to a bigger engine when you're still running WalMart tires through a GM transmission?
There is also an assumption that being 40% larger is an ecological benefit.
I lean libertarian, but this article indicates that there really is a role for government to play in renewables that does not boil down to the President writing big checks to his political donors. IMHO, one of the proper roles of government is to enable markets. Building a road system enables farmers to bring their crops to the cities, and for cities to sale their manufactured goods to farmers. It doesn't make sense for either group to build the roads by themselves, and having a third party build, own and control the roads puts to much power in the hands of individuals, and creates innefficient roads since the builder would have to negotiate terms with individual land owners to build the roads in the first place.
The current situation with renewables is that small amounts of power are created at different times of the day in different areas. Getting the power from the western plains to the eastern factories to take advantage of all that wind is problematic (drive across Indiana and you see a large portion of the windmills stopped even though the wind is vigorous). The biggest boost the Feds could give to renewables is to put the federal electricity distribution grid on steroids. Once I can sell my wind produced energy on an open market the size of the US, I'd never let them to stop. And I'd probably put up more for even more passive income.
I know there is currently a federal grid, but it should be beefed up and anyone allowed to participate in the market in the same way that anyone can set up a trucking company.
Modern landfills circulate enzymes through the waste so that organic material breaks down into methane, which is then used to fire a small power plant. A better use would be to dump a body into a vat of the stuff. A portion of the gas could be diverted to a gas lamp, with a nice funeral where the bereaved get to observe that the light of the deceased continues to shine (with the remainder of the gas being diverted to power an electric plant, just like the landfills).
Yes, I could. It's easy. Just think of the last time you saw a bloated deer on the side of the highway during the summer. They get hit quite a bit in suburbs that are expanding into rural areas.
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Do you really expect us to leave mom's basement?