The only reason to buy a hybrid is show other people how much you care about the environment: it's a statement, not an answer.
Perhaps it is, and perhaps it isn't. But one of the groups such a statement is aimed at is manufacturers. Until they hear, via the only communication medium the really respond to (i.e., money), that there is a market full of people who care about the environment they won't bother building anything that might be an answer.
The octopus just has to think to itself, "don't tie my arms in a knot", like each of us does every day, and voila, no arm knots.
I forgot to think that one day. Worst day I've ever had.
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Recycling never takes off until the law says it has to. Until real recycling is a requirement, it just is not profitable enough to build that infrastructure.
Actually, recycling won't take off until it becomes profitable. There was a significant recycling industry before most communities instituted curb side recycling. That recycling industry was almost destroyed by curb side recycling programs that drastically increased the supply of recyclable materials without doing anything to increase the demand for those materials. This is one of the reasons most curb side recycling programs cost their communities money to run; the revenue from selling recyclables is very low because they increased supply without increasing demand.
I found the book "Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage" by William Rathje & Cullen Murphy to be a very interesting analysis of how we deal with out garbage. It also happens to contain a section on recycling.
1) It only blocks -unrequested- popups. If a user action (clicking on a link, button, etc.) runs javascript that pops up a window, Mozilla assumes you wanted that popup and gives it to you. Mozilla only blocks popups that are part of Javascript that gets run automatically as part of the page. (.e.g, onLoad(), onUnload(), etc.)
2) It puts an icon in the status bar whenever it blocks a popup. Clicking on that icon adds the current site to a whitelist of sites that you want to see popups from.
The responses to the survey determined whether people thought anti-encryption laws would be useful in preventing terrorism. The MSNBC article then implied that this is synonymous with such laws being The Right Thing To Do. In fact, the question of whether anti-encryption laws would be useful in preventing terrorism is a very different question from whether anti-encryption laws are morally or ethically acceptable.
Or, to sink to the level of platitudes: the ends still do not justify the means.
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The only reason to buy a hybrid is show other people how much you care about the environment: it's a statement, not an answer.
Perhaps it is, and perhaps it isn't. But one of the groups such a statement is aimed at is manufacturers. Until they hear, via the only communication medium the really respond to (i.e., money), that there is a market full of people who care about the environment they won't bother building anything that might be an answer.
I forgot to think that one day. Worst day I've ever had.
Recycling never takes off until the law says it has to. Until real recycling is a requirement, it just is not profitable enough to build that infrastructure.
Actually, recycling won't take off until it becomes profitable. There was a significant recycling industry before most communities instituted curb side recycling. That recycling industry was almost destroyed by curb side recycling programs that drastically increased the supply of recyclable materials without doing anything to increase the demand for those materials. This is one of the reasons most curb side recycling programs cost their communities money to run; the revenue from selling recyclables is very low because they increased supply without increasing demand.
I found the book "Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage" by William Rathje & Cullen Murphy to be a very interesting analysis of how we deal with out garbage. It also happens to contain a section on recycling.
Mozilla does two things:
1) It only blocks -unrequested- popups. If a user action (clicking on a link, button, etc.) runs javascript that pops up a window, Mozilla assumes you wanted that popup and gives it to you. Mozilla only blocks popups that are part of Javascript that gets run automatically as part of the page. (.e.g, onLoad(), onUnload(), etc.)
2) It puts an icon in the status bar whenever it blocks a popup. Clicking on that icon adds the current site to a whitelist of sites that you want to see popups from.
The responses to the survey determined whether people thought anti-encryption laws would be useful in preventing terrorism. The MSNBC article then implied that this is synonymous with such laws being The Right Thing To Do. In fact, the question of whether anti-encryption laws would be useful in preventing terrorism is a very different question from whether anti-encryption laws are morally or ethically acceptable.
Or, to sink to the level of platitudes: the ends still do not justify the means.