if you aren't worried about invasive plants, you could let punktree take over south Florida. of course, all the rich (mistyped that as "reich" at 1st... hmmm...) folks in their subdivisions might get annoyed when the Melaleuca overtakes the rest of their manicured "natural areas".
is not what i'd really consider a scientist. i read the Gaia Theory a while ago. it's kind of hokey. more new ageish than new scientist, if you ask me.
It's the jobs of both companies to raise the shareholder value - and the best agreement in that scenario would be to agree to take more from customers.
i think it's time to find a way to stop making everything beholden to the shareholders' wishes. whether it's allowing a company to exist for only a certain time or something else, somehow corporations have to be reined in.
i kind of figured there had always been mozzies there. i was just attempting an oblique, ridiculous reference to global warming. i live in Florida, US, and we have 90 varieties of mozzies. all sizes and bites. and they are different in different parts of the state here as well.
that was kind of my point (but not entirely)... people coming here for the climate and relying on growth to fund the state's "needs".
i don't know if you live in Florida or not. if you do, sorry to tell you what you probably already know, but for anyone else interested: Florida has been struggling with a budget deficit for two years, maybe longer, i don't worry about it that much. with the state's financial problems and commiserate cuts, many services are being affected. fire departments (local entities and locally taxed, but still affected) and parks(state and local) are two things i think of off the top of my head, besides the services for needy people (funded both locally and at the state level).
state universities have seen very significant tuition increases over the last two years and more on on the way. one could argue that a Florida university is a bargain compared to the rest of the nation, but regardless, when that hike hits your wallet, you feel it.
part of the reason for these cuts is that the golden gooses aren't laying eggs like they used to. there are still corporate taxes, but they have lots of loopholes. with the budget problems the state's government is now raiding funds reserved for specific purposes to pay for general budget items.
i'm not saying a state income tax is going to solve all the issues, i don't pretend to be any kind of economist (it might help though). i was just observing that relying on tourists and growth due to people moving here because of an appealing climate ("hot air") hasn't been dependable.
i use Yahoo! mail (4 accounts) for most of my email activity. i have a rarely used GMail account or two. i have an account through uni, that is now serviced by GMail. i get almost no spam. i had 2 accounts with Earthlink. now those two were somewhat spam-laden, but in recent months, the amount of spam dropped quite a bit. if i didn't know any better, it would seem to me that the legislation worked. but i'm more inclined to believe it was a result of software changes that were implemented by the services to respond to complaints from users.
as far as i'm concerned, there is no secret to the economy and how to make it work. people will still make widgets and sell them and buy them if either of those guys, or any of the other guys, were elected. if you're still able to work and pay you're bills and hopefully save some, what does it matter if a "too big to fail" corporation fails?
if a cow is free range, i'm assuming that means the cow eats grass. if BSE is caused by eating manufactured, non-grass feed, it would seem to me that free range does solve the problem. does free range not mean that the cows eat grass?
i don't understand your second paragraph. are you saying that there is a difference between "tested positive" and "infected"?
i signed up for a membership to ESA this year just to have access to Ecology, since i'll likely lose my access through the uni's library system with graduation. reading journals like Ecology and The American Naturalist is a good way to keep up with issues in my field of interest, so i consider it requisite.
like you point out though, i don't really want all that paper, so i have electronic access. if i move, i won't have to miss an issue. unless i won't have access to the Internet. but that's not likely to happen.
as well, it seems a fair share of/. articles point to stories that started with something printed in a journal for one field or another.
i don't read it much, but i see a couple of issues laying around where i work sometimes. the magazine seems TO ME to be some kind of ad mag for weapons and military tech. but i'm not a regular reader.
i could hope that a new administration will mean that there will be a change to this policy. even if that happened though, the pendulum would probably swing back to the surveillance again.
on a related note, i noticed cameras on the traffic signal arms at an intersection near my home that look a lot like surveillance cameras. there are two sets of cameras with each signal now: what i THINK of as a traffic camera, that monitors traffic flow (more like a counter) and has been on the signal for a long time now, and then a "regular" camera, with a lens for real imaging and thus, watching and recording what happens in or near the intersection. i'll admit i don't read the local paper (not that it'd likely be reported), so i don't know if there is a public explanation for these newer cameras, but they do intrigue. if i start to ask questions, i'll be the crackpot of course.
why does anyone think the FAA will bother with a serious consideration of regulation? most federal regulatory agencies rubber stamp anything the corporations or king george wants.
it's hard to say i disagree with this idea totally, since helicopters have been in use for a long time and there doesn't seem to be much of a difference, but i'm not a big supporter of it. i guess my major point of contention is that this is another implementation of military equipment in civilian situations.
i guess one bright side to this would be that the drones are probably better for the environment, since they'll probably use less fuel/energy.
commonwealth member or not, this will probably make all the other big-brother units pale in comparison, seeing as how two (three?) of the countries in that short list are doing all they can to surveil citizens of supposedly free democracies already. now, thinking they represent the elite of all law enforcement agencies and technically advanced governments, i expect they'll have no qualms with using any means they can come up with.
my school has group "study" rooms in the library. you have to get a key to use one of the rooms and the only way to get a key is by signing up a group of people.
what we need to counter the last 8 years of corporate dominance in government
i thought Lessig more or less described himself as a free market advocate? that being the case, how will he solve the problem? not that the corporatist government we have is the fault of free markets, but i don't see him necessarily making moves to reign in all the rampant cronyism/corruption.
i've met plenty of people who think anything the govt. does is okay for the say of security. i don't know personally know anyone who whose alarm goes off. unfortunately.
but i'll add anyway. David Tilman from U of MN has worked quite extensively with mono- and polycultures of plants/grass for purposes of productivity. his paper here talks about using switchgrass in combination with other plants to use degraded/poor ag. lands and still get better, even carbon negative, output than corn or soy beans for ethanol, without a lot of input. i don't know why this didn't get more press.
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which trees? where? how many?
if you aren't worried about invasive plants, you could let punktree take over south Florida. of course, all the rich (mistyped that as "reich" at 1st... hmmm...) folks in their subdivisions might get annoyed when the Melaleuca overtakes the rest of their manicured "natural areas".
it'd be better if people stopped making so many babies. or stopped making more roads and cutting down more trees to move into natural areas for their fantasy nature cabin.
sorry, that was pretty snappy. but it's not looking for tricks, it's changing people's behavior that will ease (or reverse?) climate change.
is not what i'd really consider a scientist. i read the Gaia Theory a while ago. it's kind of hokey. more new ageish than new scientist, if you ask me.
i think it's time to find a way to stop making everything beholden to the shareholders' wishes. whether it's allowing a company to exist for only a certain time or something else, somehow corporations have to be reined in.
i kind of figured there had always been mozzies there. i was just attempting an oblique, ridiculous reference to global warming. i live in Florida, US, and we have 90 varieties of mozzies. all sizes and bites. and they are different in different parts of the state here as well.
damn, global warning is worse than i thought.
i thought he actually was a "Censorship Minister". it's actually Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. regardless of that title, the blatant corporate cronyism is appalling.
is a whole ministry for broadband, communications and the digital economy really necessary?
that was kind of my point (but not entirely)... people coming here for the climate and relying on growth to fund the state's "needs".
i don't know if you live in Florida or not. if you do, sorry to tell you what you probably already know, but for anyone else interested: Florida has been struggling with a budget deficit for two years, maybe longer, i don't worry about it that much. with the state's financial problems and commiserate cuts, many services are being affected. fire departments (local entities and locally taxed, but still affected) and parks(state and local) are two things i think of off the top of my head, besides the services for needy people (funded both locally and at the state level).
state universities have seen very significant tuition increases over the last two years and more on on the way. one could argue that a Florida university is a bargain compared to the rest of the nation, but regardless, when that hike hits your wallet, you feel it.
part of the reason for these cuts is that the golden gooses aren't laying eggs like they used to. there are still corporate taxes, but they have lots of loopholes. with the budget problems the state's government is now raiding funds reserved for specific purposes to pay for general budget items.
i'm not saying a state income tax is going to solve all the issues, i don't pretend to be any kind of economist (it might help though). i was just observing that relying on tourists and growth due to people moving here because of an appealing climate ("hot air") hasn't been dependable.
Florida's budget depends on hot air.
i use Yahoo! mail (4 accounts) for most of my email activity. i have a rarely used GMail account or two. i have an account through uni, that is now serviced by GMail. i get almost no spam. i had 2 accounts with Earthlink. now those two were somewhat spam-laden, but in recent months, the amount of spam dropped quite a bit.
if i didn't know any better, it would seem to me that the legislation worked. but i'm more inclined to believe it was a result of software changes that were implemented by the services to respond to complaints from users.
if/when that does happen, how many people in the U.S. will make an effort such as the Australians to voice their opposition?
had no weight in my vote.
as far as i'm concerned, there is no secret to the economy and how to make it work. people will still make widgets and sell them and buy them if either of those guys, or any of the other guys, were elected. if you're still able to work and pay you're bills and hopefully save some, what does it matter if a "too big to fail" corporation fails?
if a cow is free range, i'm assuming that means the cow eats grass. if BSE is caused by eating manufactured, non-grass feed, it would seem to me that free range does solve the problem. does free range not mean that the cows eat grass?
i don't understand your second paragraph. are you saying that there is a difference between "tested positive" and "infected"?
i signed up for a membership to ESA this year just to have access to Ecology, since i'll likely lose my access through the uni's library system with graduation. reading journals like Ecology and The American Naturalist is a good way to keep up with issues in my field of interest, so i consider it requisite.
/. articles point to stories that started with something printed in a journal for one field or another.
like you point out though, i don't really want all that paper, so i have electronic access. if i move, i won't have to miss an issue. unless i won't have access to the Internet. but that's not likely to happen.
as well, it seems a fair share of
they come up with this right after i finish uni.
i don't read it much, but i see a couple of issues laying around where i work sometimes. the magazine seems TO ME to be some kind of ad mag for weapons and military tech. but i'm not a regular reader.
i could hope that a new administration will mean that there will be a change to this policy. even if that happened though, the pendulum would probably swing back to the surveillance again.
on a related note, i noticed cameras on the traffic signal arms at an intersection near my home that look a lot like surveillance cameras. there are two sets of cameras with each signal now: what i THINK of as a traffic camera, that monitors traffic flow (more like a counter) and has been on the signal for a long time now, and then a "regular" camera, with a lens for real imaging and thus, watching and recording what happens in or near the intersection.
i'll admit i don't read the local paper (not that it'd likely be reported), so i don't know if there is a public explanation for these newer cameras, but they do intrigue. if i start to ask questions, i'll be the crackpot of course.
or company charters shouldn't be written to allow companies to exist indefinitely.
why does anyone think the FAA will bother with a serious consideration of regulation? most federal regulatory agencies rubber stamp anything the corporations or king george wants.
it's hard to say i disagree with this idea totally, since helicopters have been in use for a long time and there doesn't seem to be much of a difference, but i'm not a big supporter of it. i guess my major point of contention is that this is another implementation of military equipment in civilian situations.
i guess one bright side to this would be that the drones are probably better for the environment, since they'll probably use less fuel/energy.
commonwealth member or not, this will probably make all the other big-brother units pale in comparison, seeing as how two (three?) of the countries in that short list are doing all they can to surveil citizens of supposedly free democracies already. now, thinking they represent the elite of all law enforcement agencies and technically advanced governments, i expect they'll have no qualms with using any means they can come up with.
my school has group "study" rooms in the library. you have to get a key to use one of the rooms and the only way to get a key is by signing up a group of people.
i thought Lessig more or less described himself as a free market advocate? that being the case, how will he solve the problem? not that the corporatist government we have is the fault of free markets, but i don't see him necessarily making moves to reign in all the rampant cronyism/corruption.
http://www.space4peace.org/
i've met plenty of people who think anything the govt. does is okay for the say of security. i don't know personally know anyone who whose alarm goes off. unfortunately.
myself, but what if you shipped your laptop to and from wherever you were going by
FedEx or whatever?
i don't travel much and probably wouldn't take my laptop anyway, so i don't worry about it, but this is beyond intrusive and annoying.
but i'll add anyway. David Tilman from U of MN has worked quite extensively with mono- and polycultures of plants/grass for purposes of productivity. his paper here talks about using switchgrass in combination with other plants to use degraded/poor ag. lands and still get better, even carbon negative, output than corn or soy beans for ethanol, without a lot of input. i don't know why this didn't get more press.