1. There is plenty of food for everybody today. The major problem is not production. it is distribution.....oh that and everybody should be vegetarian!
2. in a few generations GMO could out compete traditional plants, harming biodiversity, and possibly forcing us to eat GMO till the end of time!
Lets not forget crop rotation. This Years crop is next years weed! So if you plant roundup ready canola this year, and next year you want to plant corn. you can't spray your field with round up before you plant, to kill the weeds (ie your seed base form last year). You have to use a different chemical. and you probably are using corn that is resistant to chemical X. So in year 3 when you plant potatoes you can't use roundup or chemical X.....
I new an organic farmer who tried to keep on a 10->17 year crop rotation. Imagine a GMO farmer trying to maintain any kind of crop rotation. It would be Insane!
I keep bashing all this eclipseholics that call themselves coders. I use eclipse and I would call myself a programmer. While I have programed with Emacs in the past, I now use IDE's All the time. they are useful, they show me alternative views of my data structures, they correct my spelling mistakes, they warn me of errors before they happen. they make helpful suggestions. In short they make my job easier.
I disagree with your post because it basically says the government can do anything to anyone and justify it by saying the words "for the public good" The State (American in this case) rarely acts in the best interest of the people. So it is foolish to actually trust that states motives are pure in this case. However, from a purely theoretical standpoint I stand by my statement that yes the state can remove anything from the market if it actually is "for the public good". The problem comes because what the state does and what is in "the public good" has very little correlation with each other
What harm? That was the question in my post above. What harm? Sorry, I thought your Great Grandparent post focused on motive. But to answer your question the harm comes from loss of privacy. How much harm this actually does is debatable and ultimately should be decided by people in America. based on there personal set of morals.
In my personal moral view, a single snapshot every few years does very little harm, but still some harm, and it does very little good, As there areas are already well mapped, and well populated. So it is already virtually impossible to get lost in these locations.
The more frequent the pictures the more harm (loss of privacy) is done. Perhaps a good modification of this service would be to blur out anybody's face that is seen and to limit passes to every 5 years.
The fastest route to bringing Venezuela back to reality is simply to stop buying Citgo products. Dry up the money. Dry up Chavez... What do you mean when you say "reality"? Do you mean democracy? capitalism? Freedom? a different leader? Subservient to the USA?
because it already already has democracy and freedom and in my opinion capitalism is only required if the people want it.
So what do you really want? To remove the democratic head of a foreign country? or to just force the country to bend to your will?
I don't really think many are surprised that the TV station was shutdown and people generally understand that the same thing would happen in just about any other country if that station was supporting violent revolution (I don't know if they were mind you..) That's the real problem, I don't know either. Everything I see on the subject is either Western Big business bullshit which is 1 step from claiming Chavez is a violent oppressive dictator. Or state (Venezuelan) run media that portrays him as almost a Christ figure. It utterly infuriating! After all there are 3 sides to every story, and I am really have only ever heard two of them and have not been able to piece together the all important truth yet.
I agree the press in america major can't be shut down. But that is not because of freedom or democracy or any other such nonsense you are misguided enough to believe. It is because of money, you live in a plutocracy and the press has a lot of money. Plus when it really matters the major press will self sensor under presure from politcians or under presure from corperations. The American dream One Dollar One Vote!
It's not like Google is trying to force anyone to do anything. They aren't trying to steal anything from anyone. No extortion. No blackmail. No motives at all really, except to sell ads by helping people avoid getting lost. Not to go all communist or anything but I would Like to draw an analogy. A fictional company that dumps toxic waist in a residential area may not have a motive to kill off the residence. They may simply see it as cheap way to dispose of waste, making them more profit. Similarly while google might not have a motive to destroy privacy they are doing so. In all situations people (companies are run by people) need to consider the public benefit. If a product or service does more harm then good to the public as a whole, then it needs to be removed, even if it is profitable. If it is not removed by the company then it should be removed by the state.
this is possible, my laptop is about a year old running Ubuntu 6.06 and my desktop even older... would the new drivers be in the default/Universe/muliverse Repositories. should I upgrade to 7.04 to get the new drivers? I will look into the whole DRI thing, I may never bash Intel cards again.... maybe!
My current laptop dell laptop (Inspiron 8000 I think) runing Ubuntu 6.06 (I think), has an integrated intel card and it sucks at any 3d or opengl work. 2D window drawing is fine but otherwise it sucks. Same is true for my current (ubuntu 7.04) and former desktop computers both had integrated Intel cards that would not run any 3D or OpenGL app till I put a shitty 32Mb Nvidia card in them.
I wonder are these "good" drivers just for the newer intel graphics cards? should they be in the default repositories? what do I need to look for to improve my intel performance?
even if you want to run basic 3D/OpenGL apps with an Intel card you might have issues. I can not effectivly run any 3D/OpenGL app on my Intel graphics card system when booting to linux. This is a historical problem with poor driver support from Intel.
I strongly recoment the Upgrade to the Nvidia Graphics card ($50) Nvidia traditionally has good binary driver support for linux. and hey Tuxracer is fun!!!
They supply Intel graphics default on 1 desktop with an Nvidia Upgrade ($50). and an Intel Graphics card with no option on the laptop. Intel graphics cards have historically been bad options for OpenGL and 3D apps in Linux. I strongly urge caution when purchasing until cards with good 3D support are supplied (at least on the laptop).
and the whole NDISWrapper thing for wirelesss cars has always freaked me out...but mine works fine...80% of the time...:)
warning : Intel graphics cards traditionally have poor linux support. generally having an integrated intel card with linux leads to random crashes and drawing errors of 3D apps. I highly recomend the upgrade to the Nvidia Card if you plan on opening GoogleEarth, TuxRacer, or any other OpenGL app.
I also recomend holding off on the laptop till an option to upgrade to a card with good drivers is given.
that 7% comes at the cost of some functionality I would guess. I currently Have a dell laptop I duel boot. the Integrated intel card is shit. and almost any 3D app goes boom or has masive drawing errors.
I highly suggest dell upgrate there "Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950" on the laptops to a 3D card with good drivers. Nvidia comes to mind.
on the subject of the foreign workers. Before the trans-national company came they were farmers leading poor but self sufficient lives. They had probably had clean drinking water and food, but little long term security. and little to no health care.
Then the Tran-national came and bribed the government with the help of the world bank and the IMF. forced the government to privatize everything even the drinking water. The Trans nationals used or made laws, (with the help of the local government) to take the land and resources from the people who had them. On the reason that the people that were using them were not effectively using them.
The poor farmers became poor un-unionized workers, as they no-longer had land to feed them selves. there land and water became polluted from the new factories. Attempts to unionize are broken up by force. Attempts to regulate pollution fail because the government is weak and corrupt serving the interest of the trans-national.
This continues for many years. slowly the resources (diamonds, Coal, Oil, Heavy Metal, Water, wood, etc...) dwindle. The workers may soon start to gain some more power and begin to unionize.
The Trans-national decides it is far to expensive to do business here and they move. They move to a new country with a still corrupt government and fresh resources.
They have left pollution and poverty, farmers who can't use there land to farm and far fewer natural resources then were originally there. They have taken with them record profits and a large amount of wealth (diamonds, coal...) of the nation .
Unfettered capitalism does nothing but destroy/consume natural resources, and transfer wealth from the poor to the rich. What is needed is a way to control these trans-nationals, set standards for them anywhere they do business.
I have a duel boot machine, I run the ocasional Java App from both windows and linux on this machine. When Running any standard MDI-GUI Java app the linux implimentation is always slower.
yah, but it would be nice if google earth would work right. I have a newish dell laptop with and intel Graphics card running Ubuntu and google Earth has masive drawing errors and is unstable. I have a 4 year old desktop with as 32Mb NVidia card running Ubuntu and google earth works perfectly. I don't need 3d for games, but I do need some small amount of 3D. for simple stuff.
Next laptop I buy will have an NVidia card, I hear they are power hungry, and expencive, but at least I will have some form of 3d working.
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I agree with both you and GP post.
Solution :
1. Remove the influence of corporations from government
2. Reduce the power corporations have in general
1. There is plenty of food for everybody today.
The major problem is not production. it is distribution.....oh that and everybody should be vegetarian!
2. in a few generations GMO could out compete traditional plants, harming biodiversity, and possibly forcing us to eat GMO till the end of time!
Lets not forget crop rotation.
This Years crop is next years weed!
So if you plant roundup ready canola this year, and next year you want to plant corn. you can't spray your field with round up before you plant, to kill the weeds (ie your seed base form last year).
You have to use a different chemical. and you probably are using corn that is resistant to chemical X. So in year 3 when you plant potatoes you can't use roundup or chemical X.....
I new an organic farmer who tried to keep on a 10->17 year crop rotation.
Imagine a GMO farmer trying to maintain any kind of crop rotation. It would be Insane!
They also need to Train Tech Support to use this tool.
While I have programed with Emacs in the past, I now use IDE's All the time.
they are useful, they show me alternative views of my data structures, they correct my spelling mistakes, they warn me of errors before they happen. they make helpful suggestions. In short they make my job easier.
However, from a purely theoretical standpoint I stand by my statement that yes the state can remove anything from the market if it actually is "for the public good". The problem comes because what the state does and what is in "the public good" has very little correlation with each other What harm? That was the question in my post above. What harm? Sorry, I thought your Great Grandparent post focused on motive. But to answer your question the harm comes from loss of privacy. How much harm this actually does is debatable and ultimately should be decided by people in America. based on there personal set of morals.
In my personal moral view, a single snapshot every few years does very little harm, but still some harm, and it does very little good, As there areas are already well mapped, and well populated. So it is already virtually impossible to get lost in these locations.
The more frequent the pictures the more harm (loss of privacy) is done. Perhaps a good modification of this service would be to blur out anybody's face that is seen and to limit passes to every 5 years.
because it already already has democracy and freedom and in my opinion capitalism is only required if the people want it.
So what do you really want? To remove the democratic head of a foreign country? or to just force the country to bend to your will?
I agree the press in america major can't be shut down.
But that is not because of freedom or democracy or any other such nonsense you are misguided enough to believe. It is because of money, you live in a plutocracy and the press has a lot of money. Plus when it really matters the major press will self sensor under presure from politcians or under presure from corperations.
The American dream One Dollar One Vote!
A fictional company that dumps toxic waist in a residential area may not have a motive to kill off the residence. They may simply see it as cheap way to dispose of waste, making them more profit. Similarly while google might not have a motive to destroy privacy they are doing so. In all situations people (companies are run by people) need to consider the public benefit. If a product or service does more harm then good to the public as a whole, then it needs to be removed, even if it is profitable.
If it is not removed by the company then it should be removed by the state.
this is possible, my laptop is about a year old running Ubuntu 6.06
and my desktop even older...
would the new drivers be in the default/Universe/muliverse Repositories.
should I upgrade to 7.04 to get the new drivers?
I will look into the whole DRI thing, I may never bash Intel cards again....
maybe!
My current laptop dell laptop (Inspiron 8000 I think) runing Ubuntu 6.06 (I think), has an integrated intel card and it sucks at any 3d or opengl work.
2D window drawing is fine but otherwise it sucks.
Same is true for my current (ubuntu 7.04) and former desktop computers both had integrated Intel cards that would not run any 3D or OpenGL app till I put a shitty 32Mb Nvidia card in them.
I wonder are these "good" drivers just for the newer intel graphics cards?
should they be in the default repositories?
what do I need to look for to improve my intel performance?
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even if you want to run basic 3D/OpenGL apps with an Intel card you might have issues.
I can not effectivly run any 3D/OpenGL app on my Intel graphics card system when booting to linux. This is a historical problem with poor driver support from Intel.
I strongly recoment the Upgrade to the Nvidia Graphics card ($50) Nvidia traditionally has good binary driver support for linux.
and hey Tuxracer is fun!!!
They supply Intel graphics default on 1 desktop with an Nvidia Upgrade ($50).
and an Intel Graphics card with no option on the laptop. Intel graphics cards have historically been bad options for OpenGL and 3D apps in Linux. I strongly urge caution when purchasing until cards with good 3D support are supplied (at least on the laptop).
and the whole NDISWrapper thing for wirelesss cars has always freaked me out...but mine works fine...80% of the time...:)
warning : Intel graphics cards traditionally have poor linux support. generally having an integrated intel card with linux leads to random crashes and drawing errors of 3D apps. I highly recomend the upgrade to the Nvidia Card if you plan on opening GoogleEarth, TuxRacer, or any other OpenGL app.
I also recomend holding off on the laptop till an option to upgrade to a card with good drivers is given.
that 7% comes at the cost of some functionality I would guess.
I currently Have a dell laptop I duel boot.
the Integrated intel card is shit. and almost any 3D app goes boom or has masive drawing errors.
I highly suggest dell upgrate there
"Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950"
on the laptops to a 3D card with good drivers.
Nvidia comes to mind.
solar is also good for non electrical use.
Pasive Solar energy tends provides much better ROI then active solar.
China, India, Mexico.
You do not live in an isolated economy.
on the subject of the foreign workers.
Before the trans-national company came they were farmers leading poor but self sufficient lives.
They had probably had clean drinking water and food, but little long term security. and little to no health care.
Then the Tran-national came and bribed the government with the help of the world bank and the IMF. forced the government to privatize everything even the drinking water. The Trans nationals used or made laws, (with the help of the local government) to take the land and resources from the people who had them.
On the reason that the people that were using them were not effectively using them.
The poor farmers became poor un-unionized workers, as they no-longer had land to feed them selves. there land and water became polluted from the new factories. Attempts to unionize are broken up by force. Attempts to regulate pollution fail because the government is weak and corrupt serving the interest of the trans-national.
This continues for many years. slowly the resources (diamonds, Coal, Oil, Heavy Metal, Water, wood, etc...) dwindle. The workers may soon start to gain some more power and begin to unionize.
The Trans-national decides it is far to expensive to do business here and they move. They move to a new country with a still corrupt government and fresh resources.
They have left pollution and poverty, farmers who can't use there land to farm and far fewer natural resources then were originally there.
They have taken with them record profits and a large amount of wealth (diamonds, coal...) of the nation .
Unfettered capitalism does nothing but destroy/consume natural resources, and transfer wealth from the poor to the rich. What is needed is a way to control these trans-nationals, set standards for them anywhere they do business.
Thanks I will chek when I get home.
I have a duel boot machine,
I run the ocasional Java App from both windows and linux on this machine.
When Running any standard MDI-GUI Java app the linux implimentation is always slower.
Is there a reason for this?
O am I imagining it?
yah, but it would be nice if google earth would work right.
I have a newish dell laptop with and intel Graphics card running Ubuntu and google Earth has masive drawing errors and is unstable.
I have a 4 year old desktop with as 32Mb NVidia card running Ubuntu and google earth works perfectly.
I don't need 3d for games, but I do need some small amount of 3D. for simple stuff.
Next laptop I buy will have an NVidia card, I hear they are power hungry, and expencive, but at least I will have some form of 3d working.
you might be refering to the "Smart Car"h icles.htm
from:
http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/fuel_efficient_ve
* 60 mpg (unleaded gas)
* 70 mpg (diesel)
its avalible in Canada..:)
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/byclass.htm
* Honda Civic Hybrid 49 - 51 MPG
* Toyota Prius 60 - 51 MPG
* Toyota Yaris 34 - 40 MPG
unless you are talking about something like this?
* http://www.midnightsun.uwaterloo.ca/www/