I find it intriguing that you listed furries (weird) along with flat-earthers (factually wrong). I don't care how you dress when you have sex. I do care if you are unable to accept clearly proven scientific facts.
I never understood why anyone in the US gave a fuck what Clinton did in his office with an intern. But when Bush came out and said god told him to go to war barely anyone batted an eyebrow.
It might also make them update the codecs used for voice on cell phpnes and landlines. We've had the technology to drastically improve the quality of voice calls for years now.
It is indeed reminiscent of the theme of "The Road Goes Ever On", part of which Bilbo recites at the end of The Hobbit and of which many verses are sung throughout The Lord of the Rings.
That explains quite clearly how US producers use low dosage antibiotics to fatten animals. Some other countries may do the same, but many do not.
And the problem is not direct harm to the end consumer, but to the environment as well as creating a breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant bacteria that might then infect people - infections that cannot be treated using common antibiotics because they are resistant.
I have always wondered if Marx might have been right. He predicted a movement from feudality to mercantilism to capitalism to communism.
What Lenin and other "communist" leaders tried to achieve in the USSR and other countries was to bypass the capitalism phase, or to accelerate the phase. We know they pretty much failed, or at least that the communism as implemented by them failed. Mostly because it quickly led to a highly corrupted oligarchic system.
Yet I cannot help but see that capitalism IS failing, and leading us to a new oligarchic system of corpocratism.
Maybe the next phase is oligarchy, or maybe this will lead to a renewal for humanity where we will grow and be ready to adopt a true system of resource-sharing different from the communism envisioned by the 19th century philosophers and early-20th century revolutionaries..
I keep thinking that whatever system replaces the capitalism/nation-state/democratic that drove us through the 20th century will probably be unlike anything we could imagine.
I can guarantee you the stuff we make in Quebec is better than Vermont's. Go to a small Cabane a Sucre in a place like St-Joseph-de-Beauce and then we can compare!
Production of maple syrup can vary highly from one year to the next, depending on weather conditions. The ideal conditions are rather strict, where the temperature is below freezing at night just above 4C during the day. If it's too warm or too cold, very little production can be done.
Because of this, each year producers deliver some of their syrup to the strategic reserve, to ensure that every year a certain amount can be sold on the local and global markets. Before this initiative was taken, the were years when the price of syrup was really high, and even unavailable. That almost led to riots! Production these last few years has been much better, so the reserve isn't tapped much, but it's still a good idea, we don't know what might happen with GCC.
I don't think I'd care. I would know in advance my boss could easily learn about it, and I would either do it or I wouldn't. If I did, then I would have to live with the consequences, and his knowing wouldn't be a surprise.
If my boss terminated me because of that, it would not be considered sufficient reason, and he would have to pay reparations for unlawful termination.
But then, I live in a country where labor laws protect workers, not corporations.
Sometimes I wonder, what if we just forget about the whole privacy thing.
Even more, not forget about it, but go completely the other way: record everything, make everything a matter of public record. What you ate for lunch, what Mitt Romney put in his tax records 10 years ago, what the mafia boss gave to your elected representative last month, what you were watching when you masturbated in your bed last night.
I'm not entirely convinced it's a good idea, yet I can't help wonder. The problem right now is now the loss of privacy, but the selective loss of privacy - that certain people know certain things about other specific people. What if everybody could know everything about everyone - nothing hidden, nothing closed, everything 100% open, everywhere, all the time.
This would solve a number of issues with democracy, for sure. It would be the end of hypocrisy in the public sphere (because, well, everything would be public). It would certainly reduce a lot of crime and transform justice as we know it from an evaluation of opinions to an evaluation of facts and data.
One issue I see is how certain corporations could then correlate certain information and extract meaningful data - but they already do this in many instances, and if it were all in the open, anyone would be free to do the same thing, this information would not be secret. And well, the amount of data would dilute any one individual among a sea of data.
I don't know if it's a good idea, as I mentioned, or if humanity is ready for this. We've had some de-facto privacy since the dawn of civilisation, when larger groups gathered and built cities, but previously to that time those living in small villages and members of nomadic groups knew everything about each other, so I think we are mentally equipped to deal with others knowing a lot about ourselves. It has been impossible to share it all in larger groups until now, but the technology is here, and some are obviously ready to use (and abuse) it for their own ends. Why don't we bypass those abusers and remove their incentive by allowing everyone to have access to all of it?
If Apple stops pumping iPods, iPhones and iPads tomorrow, what's the worst that will happen?
People might start talking to each other again instead of having their attention taken by their iDevices all the time (yes, I am guilty of this at times myself).
If Exxon-Mobil stops pumping out oil and refining gas, diesel and jet fuel, what's the worst that will happen?
I'm thinking maybe the metric being invoked here is inadequate to describe the two companies relative importance and thus their ultimate value.
After a brief period of instability, we'd be forced to switch to a more sustainable technological model based on renewable energies, reduce pollution, and save the planet.
I think option #2 is best, I can live in an iMicrocosm, as long as I get clean air and water to breathe and drink.
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Now you can be both! Re: the new Halfhill area in Pandaria.
Erathostenes proved it 2500 years ago or so. Look him up.
Not quite, it's more
A nun, a gardener and a house painter walk into a nuclear reactor.
I don't remember the joke, but the end goes something like: "and the nun said: 'it was huge and glowing!'"
I find it intriguing that you listed furries (weird) along with flat-earthers (factually wrong). I don't care how you dress when you have sex. I do care if you are unable to accept clearly proven scientific facts.
I never understood why anyone in the US gave a fuck what Clinton did in his office with an intern. But when Bush came out and said god told him to go to war barely anyone batted an eyebrow.
It might also make them update the codecs used for voice on cell phpnes and landlines. We've had the technology to drastically improve the quality of voice calls for years now.
It meets our NEEDS.
But it doesn't meet the demand, which means it's not highly profitable for them...
I think you're confusing Radagast for Tom Bombadil.
It is indeed reminiscent of the theme of "The Road Goes Ever On", part of which Bilbo recites at the end of The Hobbit and of which many verses are sung throughout The Lord of the Rings.
One of mine is seeing Empire Strikes Back in a theater at 5!
They may have been doing 20mil in revenue, but they don't mention what the profits were (or probably losses).
Would you consider it normal if a GoldmanSachs spokesperson were arrested?
Actually, making a false claim is considered a perjury, but that clause is almost never enforced.
You are lying, anyone taking 1 minute searching on Google can find articles like this one:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=our-big-pig-problem
That explains quite clearly how US producers use low dosage antibiotics to fatten animals. Some other countries may do the same, but many do not.
And the problem is not direct harm to the end consumer, but to the environment as well as creating a breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant bacteria that might then infect people - infections that cannot be treated using common antibiotics because they are resistant.
I don't think you need to worry about Godzilla. Mothra otoh...
I have always wondered if Marx might have been right. He predicted a movement from feudality to mercantilism to capitalism to communism.
What Lenin and other "communist" leaders tried to achieve in the USSR and other countries was to bypass the capitalism phase, or to accelerate the phase. We know they pretty much failed, or at least that the communism as implemented by them failed. Mostly because it quickly led to a highly corrupted oligarchic system.
Yet I cannot help but see that capitalism IS failing, and leading us to a new oligarchic system of corpocratism.
Maybe the next phase is oligarchy, or maybe this will lead to a renewal for humanity where we will grow and be ready to adopt a true system of resource-sharing different from the communism envisioned by the 19th century philosophers and early-20th century revolutionaries..
I keep thinking that whatever system replaces the capitalism/nation-state/democratic that drove us through the 20th century will probably be unlike anything we could imagine.
By clean, you mean "stuffed full of antibiotics and raised in atrocious conditions"?
But you can't know that until you try.
I can guarantee you the stuff we make in Quebec is better than Vermont's. Go to a small Cabane a Sucre in a place like St-Joseph-de-Beauce and then we can compare!
Production of maple syrup can vary highly from one year to the next, depending on weather conditions. The ideal conditions are rather strict, where the temperature is below freezing at night just above 4C during the day. If it's too warm or too cold, very little production can be done.
Because of this, each year producers deliver some of their syrup to the strategic reserve, to ensure that every year a certain amount can be sold on the local and global markets. Before this initiative was taken, the were years when the price of syrup was really high, and even unavailable. That almost led to riots! Production these last few years has been much better, so the reserve isn't tapped much, but it's still a good idea, we don't know what might happen with GCC.
Fink does a decent job on OS X i use it to install all the open-source packages I like using.
I don't think I'd care. I would know in advance my boss could easily learn about it, and I would either do it or I wouldn't. If I did, then I would have to live with the consequences, and his knowing wouldn't be a surprise.
If my boss terminated me because of that, it would not be considered sufficient reason, and he would have to pay reparations for unlawful termination.
But then, I live in a country where labor laws protect workers, not corporations.
Sometimes I wonder, what if we just forget about the whole privacy thing.
Even more, not forget about it, but go completely the other way: record everything, make everything a matter of public record. What you ate for lunch, what Mitt Romney put in his tax records 10 years ago, what the mafia boss gave to your elected representative last month, what you were watching when you masturbated in your bed last night.
I'm not entirely convinced it's a good idea, yet I can't help wonder. The problem right now is now the loss of privacy, but the selective loss of privacy - that certain people know certain things about other specific people. What if everybody could know everything about everyone - nothing hidden, nothing closed, everything 100% open, everywhere, all the time.
This would solve a number of issues with democracy, for sure. It would be the end of hypocrisy in the public sphere (because, well, everything would be public). It would certainly reduce a lot of crime and transform justice as we know it from an evaluation of opinions to an evaluation of facts and data.
One issue I see is how certain corporations could then correlate certain information and extract meaningful data - but they already do this in many instances, and if it were all in the open, anyone would be free to do the same thing, this information would not be secret. And well, the amount of data would dilute any one individual among a sea of data.
I don't know if it's a good idea, as I mentioned, or if humanity is ready for this. We've had some de-facto privacy since the dawn of civilisation, when larger groups gathered and built cities, but previously to that time those living in small villages and members of nomadic groups knew everything about each other, so I think we are mentally equipped to deal with others knowing a lot about ourselves. It has been impossible to share it all in larger groups until now, but the technology is here, and some are obviously ready to use (and abuse) it for their own ends. Why don't we bypass those abusers and remove their incentive by allowing everyone to have access to all of it?
FF2 has been available on iOS for a couple years now.
Pu238 is not Po210
Although Polonium 210 has also been used in rovers (lunar ones), it's definitely not the same thing as Plutonium 238.
Let's compare meaningful value.
If Apple stops pumping iPods, iPhones and iPads tomorrow, what's the worst that will happen?
People might start talking to each other again instead of having their attention taken by their iDevices all the time (yes, I am guilty of this at times myself).
If Exxon-Mobil stops pumping out oil and refining gas, diesel and jet fuel, what's the worst that will happen?
I'm thinking maybe the metric being invoked here is inadequate to describe the two companies relative importance and thus their ultimate value.
After a brief period of instability, we'd be forced to switch to a more sustainable technological model based on renewable energies, reduce pollution, and save the planet.
I think option #2 is best, I can live in an iMicrocosm, as long as I get clean air and water to breathe and drink.