Be careful with iodine supplements, tho. Excess iodine is, paradoxically, a known cause of hypothyrodism. Some is good and necessary; more is not better.
I do think undiagnosed, underdosed, and silent hypothyroidism (where the TSH tests normal but the patient still requires T4 and/or T3 supplementation to feel normal) are far more common than is realised, if only because the symptoms are dismissed as part of the aging process, especially in folks over age 50, or are lumped under garbage-can diagnoses like "chronic fatigue syndrome" or "fibromyalgia" or even "depression".
Dunno about sucralose, but aspartame is thought to suppress thyroid activity.
[I have Hashimoto's. I've had to become a pocket expert on hypothyroid issues, mostly via reading the Journal of Endocrinology.]
When you protect one part of the ecosystem, it can overgrow its bounds even if the predator level stays the same. This is what has happened with deer and geese. There are actually MORE coyotes now than there were in the past, they fill pretty much the same niche as wolves, and they can't keep up.
Of course the reverse happens when you selectively protect the predators (see reintroduced wolves vs elk).
There are still millions of square miles of habitat, including wetlands, all over the U.S. and Canada, which have not and never will be touched by humans in any significant way. Take a look at a map. Better yet, visit central Canada or Montana or North Dakota or anywhere else with plenty of potholes and large shallow lakes.
For comparison, the typical penalty for writing a bad check (which is more likely to do direct harm to the victim) is just three times the amount of the check.
Why should copyright infringement be penalized at a higher rate?
How much is selection pressure, and how much being adapted that way before Roundup came along? I'm thinking specifically of Canadian thistle, which is resistant even in areas that have never been Roundup'd, and perhaps not entirely because of its root system.
Remember that next time you hear of some 'rescue' raid on a kennel. These are the people in charge. (Worse, most of them have absolutely NO knowledge of animal husbandry -- that's like a traffic cop who can't drive, so thinks all drivers are as ignorant as he, and believes they should be treated accordingly.)
The root problem, tho, is that all of 'em need to justify their jobs. Per FBI stats, crime is 1/3rd what it used to be, yet we have more cops than ever. It follows that they don't have enough to do, so they *create* work -- with 'checkpoints' and similar violations of our rights. Plus there's the incentive of civil asset forfeiture...
My experience has been mainly with animal control, who ethics-wise are 2 or 3 steps downstream from cops (most of 'em nowadays are failed wannabe cops of the little-tin-god variant). Yep, they make shit up, break the law, and generally behave like thugs. And if there's no evidence, they'll create some. (I've seen creatively-edited photos, for instance.)
Militarization of police is only making things worse.
I'm thinkin' that not only is it a good idea to put the protective Federal statute on no-trespassing signs (it'll keep out anyone who lacks a valid warrant), it might be a good idea to put it on a badge and wear it on our persons:
U.S. Code Title 18, Sections 241-242
Couple months ago I talked to a trucker who'd been violated by an inspection station (they literally tore his truck apart looking for nonexistent contraband) -- he hollered for the federal marshals and some of the inspectors are now doing federal time.
Even if they aren't doing 'wrong', as in something prosecutable, they are often using intimidation tactics against regular people, knowing the average citizen has no good way of defending himself -- such as escalating confrontations.
So if anything that happens when it's turned off, for ANY reason, is not admissable -- I think that would cover the 'malfunction' excuse. If you didn't record the evidence, which goes in realtime to a secure 3rd party server (not an in-house server where it can be creatively edited) -- too bad, no evidence.
Which is fine if you're paying five bucks a carload and not much more for popcorn and drinks, delivered to your car. It's not so fine if it's five bucks a head to get in and twice that each for refreshments that you have to trek way the hell off to fetch. Considering what distributors charge for use of a film today, and if they have sit-down cinema competition, it's gotta be tough to make a living at it. Methinks those still going are more a form of real estate investment than they are businesses.
Today's passenger vehicles aren't suited for relaxing at a movie, either (for any definition of 'relaxing').
I'd observed this same thing in school. So I took copious notes, even tho I rarely looked at them again. And while the details of the various subjects have long since fallen out of my head, I still recall the gists.
But another example: I know someone who was repeatedly failing the written driver test. She'd read and reread the manual and she'd still fail the test. So I told her to copy it via longhand, she did so, and lo and behold, she passed the test.
I have a really efficient truck (as judged by its gas mileage vs the average for that engine; most people get 6-8mpg, I get 12mpg) but it also experiences a 10-20% drop in MPG on ethanol blends. And I have to buy mid-grade instead of regular, because with regular-ethanol-blend, it lacks the power to do the heavy work I use it for. Instead of cruising easily up hills when loaded, I have to all but floor it, which sure makes the difference obvious even if I didn't notice it in my wallet.
Grid extension in MT is from $25k to $75k per mile, according to the local electric companies. Dunno what it'd be elsewhere but that's probably a good ballpark.
I believe the one in Lancaster Calilifornia uses hot oil rather than molten salt, but the principle is the same. Supposedly it's operational, tho I'm not sure anything useful is coming out of it. They spend a great deal of effort doing wind maintenance on the fence.
The collector tower is a hazard to your vision on sunny days.
1) Solar installations result in scorched-earth conditions. What was formerly habitat for a variety of plants and animals (contrary to popular fiction, deserts are far from lifeless) is now unlivable, and creates secondary dust storms wind.
2) Desert conditions tend to be far from the market destination, and transmission lines are both expensive to build and somewhat wasteful of the product.
There's a better solution right at our fingertips: Use those millions of acres of flat roofs already built in sunny cities, atop every mall and apartment building. From there it can tie right into the local grid, and it need not damage any other ecosystem. Plus it puts the construction jobs where they're already most needed (and most easily filled).
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Be careful with iodine supplements, tho. Excess iodine is, paradoxically, a known cause of hypothyrodism. Some is good and necessary; more is not better.
I do think undiagnosed, underdosed, and silent hypothyroidism (where the TSH tests normal but the patient still requires T4 and/or T3 supplementation to feel normal) are far more common than is realised, if only because the symptoms are dismissed as part of the aging process, especially in folks over age 50, or are lumped under garbage-can diagnoses like "chronic fatigue syndrome" or "fibromyalgia" or even "depression".
Dunno about sucralose, but aspartame is thought to suppress thyroid activity.
[I have Hashimoto's. I've had to become a pocket expert on hypothyroid issues, mostly via reading the Journal of Endocrinology.]
Every time I see the marketing label "organic food", I want to know where the "inorganic food" is. ;)
[My college major was biochemistry.]
And the sugar in fruit is -- mostly fructose.
Now I'm wondering when you last looked at the Mississippi. Narrow? By what definition?
If you want a river that's actually changed, inspect the Colorado or Sacramento or L.A. river channels, all either sucked dry or built over.
I'm thinkin' the 'voluntary' route in China will be "sign over your organs and we'll kill you quickly. Otherwise we'll kill you slowly."
When you protect one part of the ecosystem, it can overgrow its bounds even if the predator level stays the same. This is what has happened with deer and geese. There are actually MORE coyotes now than there were in the past, they fill pretty much the same niche as wolves, and they can't keep up.
Of course the reverse happens when you selectively protect the predators (see reintroduced wolves vs elk).
There are still millions of square miles of habitat, including wetlands, all over the U.S. and Canada, which have not and never will be touched by humans in any significant way. Take a look at a map. Better yet, visit central Canada or Montana or North Dakota or anywhere else with plenty of potholes and large shallow lakes.
For comparison, the typical penalty for writing a bad check (which is more likely to do direct harm to the victim) is just three times the amount of the check.
Why should copyright infringement be penalized at a higher rate?
How much is selection pressure, and how much being adapted that way before Roundup came along? I'm thinking specifically of Canadian thistle, which is resistant even in areas that have never been Roundup'd, and perhaps not entirely because of its root system.
Remember that next time you hear of some 'rescue' raid on a kennel. These are the people in charge. (Worse, most of them have absolutely NO knowledge of animal husbandry -- that's like a traffic cop who can't drive, so thinks all drivers are as ignorant as he, and believes they should be treated accordingly.)
The root problem, tho, is that all of 'em need to justify their jobs. Per FBI stats, crime is 1/3rd what it used to be, yet we have more cops than ever. It follows that they don't have enough to do, so they *create* work -- with 'checkpoints' and similar violations of our rights. Plus there's the incentive of civil asset forfeiture...
My experience has been mainly with animal control, who ethics-wise are 2 or 3 steps downstream from cops (most of 'em nowadays are failed wannabe cops of the little-tin-god variant). Yep, they make shit up, break the law, and generally behave like thugs. And if there's no evidence, they'll create some. (I've seen creatively-edited photos, for instance.)
Militarization of police is only making things worse.
I'm thinkin' that not only is it a good idea to put the protective Federal statute on no-trespassing signs (it'll keep out anyone who lacks a valid warrant), it might be a good idea to put it on a badge and wear it on our persons:
U.S. Code Title 18, Sections 241-242
Couple months ago I talked to a trucker who'd been violated by an inspection station (they literally tore his truck apart looking for nonexistent contraband) -- he hollered for the federal marshals and some of the inspectors are now doing federal time.
Even if they aren't doing 'wrong', as in something prosecutable, they are often using intimidation tactics against regular people, knowing the average citizen has no good way of defending himself -- such as escalating confrontations.
So if anything that happens when it's turned off, for ANY reason, is not admissable -- I think that would cover the 'malfunction' excuse. If you didn't record the evidence, which goes in realtime to a secure 3rd party server (not an in-house server where it can be creatively edited) -- too bad, no evidence.
Which is fine if you're paying five bucks a carload and not much more for popcorn and drinks, delivered to your car. It's not so fine if it's five bucks a head to get in and twice that each for refreshments that you have to trek way the hell off to fetch. Considering what distributors charge for use of a film today, and if they have sit-down cinema competition, it's gotta be tough to make a living at it. Methinks those still going are more a form of real estate investment than they are businesses.
Today's passenger vehicles aren't suited for relaxing at a movie, either (for any definition of 'relaxing').
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings
"When four men sit down to discuss revolution, three of them are government agents and the fourth is a fool."
-- Russian proverb
Your post gave me a nasty thought... I wonder how much identity theft and credit card theft/fraud takes place from inside the NSA??
Far as I know the scrap mostly went to China.
Which coincided with a 4x increase in the price of anything made from iron.
How much relationship there is between 'em I leave as an exercise for others.
I'd observed this same thing in school. So I took copious notes, even tho I rarely looked at them again. And while the details of the various subjects have long since fallen out of my head, I still recall the gists.
But another example: I know someone who was repeatedly failing the written driver test. She'd read and reread the manual and she'd still fail the test. So I told her to copy it via longhand, she did so, and lo and behold, she passed the test.
I have a really efficient truck (as judged by its gas mileage vs the average for that engine; most people get 6-8mpg, I get 12mpg) but it also experiences a 10-20% drop in MPG on ethanol blends. And I have to buy mid-grade instead of regular, because with regular-ethanol-blend, it lacks the power to do the heavy work I use it for. Instead of cruising easily up hills when loaded, I have to all but floor it, which sure makes the difference obvious even if I didn't notice it in my wallet.
Grid extension in MT is from $25k to $75k per mile, according to the local electric companies. Dunno what it'd be elsewhere but that's probably a good ballpark.
What's your setup? I'm two states east and it'd be useful info. :)
I believe the one in Lancaster Calilifornia uses hot oil rather than molten salt, but the principle is the same. Supposedly it's operational, tho I'm not sure anything useful is coming out of it. They spend a great deal of effort doing wind maintenance on the fence.
The collector tower is a hazard to your vision on sunny days.
There are two problems with using the desert:
1) Solar installations result in scorched-earth conditions. What was formerly habitat for a variety of plants and animals (contrary to popular fiction, deserts are far from lifeless) is now unlivable, and creates secondary dust storms wind.
2) Desert conditions tend to be far from the market destination, and transmission lines are both expensive to build and somewhat wasteful of the product.
There's a better solution right at our fingertips: Use those millions of acres of flat roofs already built in sunny cities, atop every mall and apartment building. From there it can tie right into the local grid, and it need not damage any other ecosystem. Plus it puts the construction jobs where they're already most needed (and most easily filled).
So what does it come to if all that is taken into account?
The figure I've heard was 5 gallons of diesel in, 4 gallons of corn ethanol out.