You can indeed keep cutting down trees or weeds for a while, but the same will happen to the topsoil as has happened just about everywhere where we do that: nutrients get depleted and without fertilizer nothing will grow anymore, not even trees or weeds. The result of that is that the soil will erode more and more and before you know it.... desert. The same goes for you lawn clippings and milkweed stalks: if you keep doing that, you're going to have to add nutrients eventually. Just leaving the garden waste somewhere in your garden would be a lot more efficient use of resources.
There are places in Syria and Northern Africa where traces of very old villages were found in the middle of the desert. Why would they build a village in the desert? The answer is that they didn't, the desert formed around them as they consumed all nutrients in the topsoil.
Apart from that, if we want to keep the CO2 levels in our atmosphere in check, it's not such a good idea to keep cutting down photosynthesis capacity.
I think they forget to mention a few important aspects: - The main input for agriculture, apart from sun and water, is fossil fuel in the form of fertilizer and pesticides. - The waste output of agriculture is currently pretty much used up for other purposes.
While the idea is great, it won't solve any energy problem, it will create a new one.
And apart from that, photovoltaics and CSP have over 5 times the efficiency of photosynthesis and electromotors are at least 2.5 times as efficient as internal combustion engines, so IMNSHO we should phase out oil and biofuels entirely and go electric.
If they would actually care, they would make it legal. What they've done now, is to make it explicitly illegal and then tell the police not to do anything about it. So it's kinda logical there's not english translation for "gedoogbeleid" because it simply makes no sense. The whole concept is around only to keep hypocrites (read: neighbouring countries) happy. Apart from that, you're correct;-)
In dutch "structureel" actually means the same as "regularly" or "usually" but also "structurally". However, what I actually meant to say was continuously;-)
First of all, smoking weed is not legal in the Netherlands, they just don't bother to arrest you for it. Second of all, I structurally fail to smoke enough weed to blur the police state. And believe me, I try like noone else...
Do not go to the Netherlands! We have the highest number of wiretaps per capita of all countries worldwide, cartoonists get arrested over their cartoons, last year thousands of innocent people - including minors - were arrested for not carrying ID, possession of potato-knives (is that an english word?) and chocolate cigarettes are prohibited, using open wifi connections is prohibited, multiple journalists were taken hostage by the government recently in an attempt to get them to disclose their sources, we have a huge history of putting innocent people in jail and have about the lowest percentage of solved crimes in the EU, some neighboorhoods even have a curfew, privacy is now something purely conceptual and political parties structurally break their election-promises. Oh and our army has transformed from doing our defense to being mercenaries for GW Bush' personal oil-goals.
The Netherlands used to be pretty much on the top of the freedom-list, but we've left that list long ago... I don't have that many facts about Canada at hand, but I believe it's not much better over there. And about the UK - I take a trip there (ok, ok, Scotland it is:-)) every now and then; I sense a lot more freedom over there, a lot less tensions between ethnical groups, police that don't act like they're Cartman "respect my authority" and so on.
So, in short, the UK may appear to be idiotic, but in essence they're a lot less idiotic than for example the Dutch are.
Your description is rather subjective; each religion involves at least at bit of "convincing". When convincing becomes brainwashing depends is hard to tell. I do think you're right in your distinction between cults and religions, but it should be noted that this distinction is made on purely subjective criteria. One important aspect that should be noted, is that in the case of scientology this brainwashing is often performed on adults, which makes it rather visible. In most other religions, new members are brainwashed as of their birth and usually this type of brainwashing is called "bringing up". But a lot of those religions keep their members silenced by blackmailing them "if you leave us,...".
I personally think all religions and cults manage to get people to believe things for which there is no rational or logical foundation. How they get those people to believe is rather (but not entirely;-)) irrelevant; that some religions manage to brainwash using a method that appears more friendly than others, doesn't really change the result.
So fucking sad to have 11 year olds waste time fighting viruses and other things that I haven't had to bother with since I said Windows goodbye something like 11 years ago. So sad...
So half the movie is about killing various people, people that are locked up in a slimy bath for their entire life and people's life being controlled by robots and you actually dare complaining that the sex scene is "unneccessary" while all those other disgusting parts aren't?
What is wrong with you? Do you hate to be distracted by love while watching violence? To me you appear like a very, very sick person.
What a load of bullshit. If you buy a computer game (yes, Microsoft Office is a computer game;-)) how can you be expected to know that the part of the game where you need to click the Accept-button below a shitload of bullshit text is not part of the game? Of course it is part of the game.
It should be noted that due to US immigration restrictions, 80% of muslims migrating to the US are highly educated. Engineers. This should somehow skew the results.
Were I live, in the Netherlands, only 30% of the muslim immigrants are highly educated (the rest is practically completely uneducated...); if you'd do the same test in the Nederlands, you might find morons have a terrorist mindset;-)
I don't think this is any different from those boatloads of people that always say "I am not able to..." without even bothering to try it. "I'm too stupid for that" etc. Those people assume they're doing the wrong thing anyway and therefore simply refuse to spend much time on it. It's a self confidence thing.
It's just that Google makes this utter refusal to actually try anything you don't already know how to do very visible, but it's nothing new. 99% of humanity act like their skills and knowledge are some fixed given. And that's not that strange since that's what they are taught in school: "you know shit, we know everything and don't even bother to claim otherwise or you'll be spending the rest of the afternoon in detention.".
This has nothing to do with Google, it's just that Google once again shows us how utterly lazy and without self-confidence mankind is taught to be.
When will those fucking assholes stop polluting just about every square millimeter of our planet with artificial ugly light?! It's totally outrageous that just about nobody alive today has actually ever had the chance to experience why we call the milky way the milky way.
Official reasons that sound like crap usually are crap. And crap is generally used to hide economic motives. I, for one, think it's really coincidental that marijuana was prohibited in the entire US in exactly the same year that the decorticator for hemp was invented - a device that sped up the processing of hemp a tenfold, thereby making it far superior to cotton for textile and far superior to woodpulp for paper.
(As a service to the Hebrew speaking/. reader, I hereby provide a translation for your convenience!)
It doubts manufacture without any one; Realness it is they under disrupting highland Anh the reply of the government of the Netherlands stops backwards with one realness. The bravery of the person of the periodical fêz this danger that English it danger the good thing age because it speaks sufficiently and but, regarding a great disaster cancelled a course;-)
In babelfish the translation was English in the Netherlands U and - they were possible with English and of hebreeuws it translates a software that different if used in the first one.
But to consider the o government of the Netherlands that gives to one intercourse sexual the parcel was definately manufacture.
It's not a hoax for sure; the Dutch government responded that it was real and that it didn't really bother them. They cancelled the trip the interview was about, however, since the journalists didn't speak english well enough for it to be of any use;-)
The translation with babelfish was from english to dutch - probably they used other software to translate from hebrew to english first.
But the part about the dutch government giving a fuck was definately a hoax.
Don't we have 'market forces' to prevent ISPs from freezing the quality of their infrastructure? As far as I'm aware, this has worked just fine for years and years.
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You can indeed keep cutting down trees or weeds for a while, but the same will happen to the topsoil as has happened just about everywhere where we do that: nutrients get depleted and without fertilizer nothing will grow anymore, not even trees or weeds. The result of that is that the soil will erode more and more and before you know it.... desert. The same goes for you lawn clippings and milkweed stalks: if you keep doing that, you're going to have to add nutrients eventually. Just leaving the garden waste somewhere in your garden would be a lot more efficient use of resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_degradation
There are places in Syria and Northern Africa where traces of very old villages were found in the middle of the desert. Why would they build a village in the desert? The answer is that they didn't, the desert formed around them as they consumed all nutrients in the topsoil.
Apart from that, if we want to keep the CO2 levels in our atmosphere in check, it's not such a good idea to keep cutting down photosynthesis capacity.
I think they forget to mention a few important aspects:
- The main input for agriculture, apart from sun and water, is fossil fuel in the form of fertilizer and pesticides.
- The waste output of agriculture is currently pretty much used up for other purposes.
While the idea is great, it won't solve any energy problem, it will create a new one.
And apart from that, photovoltaics and CSP have over 5 times the efficiency of photosynthesis and electromotors are at least 2.5 times as efficient as internal combustion engines, so IMNSHO we should phase out oil and biofuels entirely and go electric.
If they would actually care, they would make it legal. What they've done now, is to make it explicitly illegal and then tell the police not to do anything about it. So it's kinda logical there's not english translation for "gedoogbeleid" because it simply makes no sense. The whole concept is around only to keep hypocrites (read: neighbouring countries) happy. Apart from that, you're correct;-)
In dutch "structureel" actually means the same as "regularly" or "usually" but also "structurally". However, what I actually meant to say was continuously;-)
Not yet... 5 days until mushroom prohibition (which means they should cut down just about all our forests because they break te law)
First of all, smoking weed is not legal in the Netherlands, they just don't bother to arrest you for it. Second of all, I structurally fail to smoke enough weed to blur the police state. And believe me, I try like noone else...
Do not go to the Netherlands! We have the highest number of wiretaps per capita of all countries worldwide, cartoonists get arrested over their cartoons, last year thousands of innocent people - including minors - were arrested for not carrying ID, possession of potato-knives (is that an english word?) and chocolate cigarettes are prohibited, using open wifi connections is prohibited, multiple journalists were taken hostage by the government recently in an attempt to get them to disclose their sources, we have a huge history of putting innocent people in jail and have about the lowest percentage of solved crimes in the EU, some neighboorhoods even have a curfew, privacy is now something purely conceptual and political parties structurally break their election-promises. Oh and our army has transformed from doing our defense to being mercenaries for GW Bush' personal oil-goals.
The Netherlands used to be pretty much on the top of the freedom-list, but we've left that list long ago... I don't have that many facts about Canada at hand, but I believe it's not much better over there. And about the UK - I take a trip there (ok, ok, Scotland it is:-)) every now and then; I sense a lot more freedom over there, a lot less tensions between ethnical groups, police that don't act like they're Cartman "respect my authority" and so on.
So, in short, the UK may appear to be idiotic, but in essence they're a lot less idiotic than for example the Dutch are.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Your description is rather subjective; each religion involves at least at bit of "convincing". When convincing becomes brainwashing depends is hard to tell. I do think you're right in your distinction between cults and religions, but it should be noted that this distinction is made on purely subjective criteria. One important aspect that should be noted, is that in the case of scientology this brainwashing is often performed on adults, which makes it rather visible. In most other religions, new members are brainwashed as of their birth and usually this type of brainwashing is called "bringing up". But a lot of those religions keep their members silenced by blackmailing them "if you leave us, ...".
I personally think all religions and cults manage to get people to believe things for which there is no rational or logical foundation. How they get those people to believe is rather (but not entirely;-)) irrelevant; that some religions manage to brainwash using a method that appears more friendly than others, doesn't really change the result.
So fucking sad to have 11 year olds waste time fighting viruses and other things that I haven't had to bother with since I said Windows goodbye something like 11 years ago. So sad...
Everybody should really read this wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
The only people that are mad, are those that diagnose others as being mad.
Has it ever occured to you that we all are chatbots?
Not only that, but simulation error could also explain the mismatch between the theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics.
So half the movie is about killing various people, people that are locked up in a slimy bath for their entire life and people's life being controlled by robots and you actually dare complaining that the sex scene is "unneccessary" while all those other disgusting parts aren't?
What is wrong with you? Do you hate to be distracted by love while watching violence? To me you appear like a very, very sick person.
What a load of bullshit. If you buy a computer game (yes, Microsoft Office is a computer game;-)) how can you be expected to know that the part of the game where you need to click the Accept-button below a shitload of bullshit text is not part of the game? Of course it is part of the game.
*boycots olympic games entirely*
Since when do you need compensation for having fun and expressing yourself?!
It should be noted that due to US immigration restrictions, 80% of muslims migrating to the US are highly educated. Engineers. This should somehow skew the results.
Were I live, in the Netherlands, only 30% of the muslim immigrants are highly educated (the rest is practically completely uneducated...); if you'd do the same test in the Nederlands, you might find morons have a terrorist mindset;-)
The only reason that Dreamweaver is the most popular web page design tool, is that nobody actually uses web page design tools to create web pages.
I don't think this is any different from those boatloads of people that always say "I am not able to ..." without even bothering to try it. "I'm too stupid for that" etc. Those people assume they're doing the wrong thing anyway and therefore simply refuse to spend much time on it. It's a self confidence thing.
It's just that Google makes this utter refusal to actually try anything you don't already know how to do very visible, but it's nothing new. 99% of humanity act like their skills and knowledge are some fixed given. And that's not that strange since that's what they are taught in school: "you know shit, we know everything and don't even bother to claim otherwise or you'll be spending the rest of the afternoon in detention.".
This has nothing to do with Google, it's just that Google once again shows us how utterly lazy and without self-confidence mankind is taught to be.
When will those fucking assholes stop polluting just about every square millimeter of our planet with artificial ugly light?! It's totally outrageous that just about nobody alive today has actually ever had the chance to experience why we call the milky way the milky way.
Official reasons that sound like crap usually are crap. And crap is generally used to hide economic motives. I, for one, think it's really coincidental that marijuana was prohibited in the entire US in exactly the same year that the decorticator for hemp was invented - a device that sped up the processing of hemp a tenfold, thereby making it far superior to cotton for textile and far superior to woodpulp for paper.
http://www.jackherer.com/popmech.html
(As a service to the Hebrew speaking /. reader, I hereby provide a translation for your convenience!)
It doubts manufacture without any one; Realness it is they under disrupting highland Anh the reply of the government of the Netherlands stops backwards with one realness. The bravery of the person of the periodical fêz this danger that English it danger the good thing age because it speaks sufficiently and but, regarding a great disaster cancelled a course;-)
In babelfish the translation was English in the Netherlands U and - they were possible with English and of hebreeuws it translates a software that different if used in the first one.
But to consider the o government of the Netherlands that gives to one intercourse sexual the parcel was definately manufacture.
When the possibility you who read dutchman it will be, here HTTP of the connection: post office http://www.depers.nl/binnenland/120757/E-mail-Isra%C3%ABl-schokt-Verhagen.html
It's not a hoax for sure; the Dutch government responded that it was real and that it didn't really bother them. They cancelled the trip the interview was about, however, since the journalists didn't speak english well enough for it to be of any use;-)
The translation with babelfish was from english to dutch - probably they used other software to translate from hebrew to english first.
But the part about the dutch government giving a fuck was definately a hoax.
If you can read dutch, here's a link. http://www.depers.nl/binnenland/120757/E-mail-Isra%C3%ABl-schokt-Verhagen.html
Stealing requires the victim to loose something. This is not stealing.
Don't we have 'market forces' to prevent ISPs from freezing the quality of their infrastructure? As far as I'm aware, this has worked just fine for years and years.