Of course, now that we know about these two examples and millions of people are outraged......well, they're still happening. That's a different problem though I guess.
Back in the early 80's when I was a pot smokoer I had a rather nice crop.
How did I do it? I used our little garden tiller to till a nice patch behind our yard that was screened by forest but let plenty of light in.
Then I popped some seeds in the ground and waited. That's all. I didn't even bother to weed the patch much. Now, without the tiller there would have been a bit more work up front, but not a huge amount.
I actually WAS arrested for #6 once, though it was a false arrest. I asked them if they wanted us to leave (it's common for Buffalo cops to tell groups of young people congregating to leave) and they said no, etc., arrested me.
In the arrest report, it says that I refused to comply with an order to disperse, and I was charged with disorderly conduct.
Yeah, a Buffalo cop grabbed me by the collar and threatened to arrest me because I laughed and said "do that again, let me get it on video" after that cop gave a person the finger (the person had asked for the cop's badge number.)
He pulled me close to him and I chuckled and said "for what?" Then a superior officer called the guy off and told him to cool off. I was not worried about being arrested because there were about 30 witnesses.
Here in NY, my friend and I were threatened with arrest because my friend flipped off a neighbor who cut him off. The guy called the cops, cop shows up at my friends house and proceeds to tell us that making an "obscene gesture" is a crime.
I once related this anecdote before here on/., and had to deal with some morons calling me a liar, saying that such a thing couldn't possibly have happened.
"So far, strip mining our oceans (3/4th our entire planet surface) isn't economically viable yet. Once the technology and scale of industry provides the means, it will happen."
Well isn't that just a wonderful thing to look forward to. I'm sure there couldn't be any negative consequences from that... not at all.
Gosh, you're pleasant. Buffalo, NY - 26k vacant homes. It's quite possible that more than 1/2 of them are not in reasonably livable condition, which would mean a mere 10k vacant homes. The city owns many thousands of them due to back taxes and can't afford to tear them down.
Buffalo's population has dropped by half since the 1950s, and the whole metro area's population has dropped... and is still dropping, the suburbs, etc... yet sprawl in still going on,woodlands and wetlands being destroyed at a fast rate.
People need places to live? True. Though the population in this area is dropping, and has been dropping for over 50 years... and there are over 26 THOUSAND vacant homes in the nearby city, and everyone is complaining that the young leave, and people say things like "last one out, turn off the lights..." and the inner and outer-ring suburbs are being abandoned as people move into the sprawl in what was once rural and farming land. So, at least here it's not "people need some place to live," so much as it's people constantly wanting newer, bigger homes and a lack of planning to build those where the new vacancies are popping up. So here we are with a declining population, yet increasing sprawl, and huge swaths of the city turning into urban prairie, where you'll see literally two-square blocks in the city with only one or two occupied houses in them.
Funny you should say that. The house that the worst guy built in the field next door - destroying a field, wetlands, the area that deer used to cross in, where wild turkeys used to congregate in scores, where there was a stream with fish, all destroyed and moved... just finished building his monstrosity a year ago.
The place took almost two years to build, and he finally got to move in. Suddenly there's a "for sale" sign out front. I wonder what happened.
So, beautiful wild land full of nature and wildlife was destroyed to make room for a soon-to-be-vacant house.
My neighbors are typical americans - they came out into what was the countryside (our house was in the middle of nowhere for decades, now it looks like suburbs.)
After they built their McMansions, closer together than some of the houses in the city, using up the woods and fields I used to romp in, they installed huge arrays of sodium-vapor lighting on their houses, which they leave on 24 hours a day. For "security," or to make it homey, or whatever.
I used to go in the back yard to stargaze, I could even see the aurora borealis sometimes - in NY! We never even bothered to replace the outside floodlight over the driveway for years after it died, but the latest thing for all these new people seems to be to have a gazillion lights. Houses, cars, SUVs, three-wheelers, all festooned with lights - long driveways lined with bright lights left on at all times.
I don't get it. Why do people move out to the country if they don't want it to be like the country?
I play piano, and I have recorded some of my compositions via the "mechanism" in my digital piano, and there's something interesting I noticed - when I record the piece using the piano's own proprietary file format, it is reproduced EXACTLY as I played it... but when I convert that into MIDI, it doesn't have anywhere near the subtlety - there doesn't seem to me anywhere's near the resolution in velocity that the machine's proprietary method uses.
All of which leads me to believe that there's something inherently limiting in MIDI - that it is, frankly, an obsolete format - that new digital interface methods better reproduce the mechanics of a performance. I wonder if anyone else has noticed this? Is there a MIDI 2.o in the works to address this?
Not to mention the idea of patronizing companies who treat their employees well over patronizing those who mistreat them. And forced Scientology training is certainly mistreatment.
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Of course, now that we know about these two examples and millions of people are outraged... ...well, they're still happening. That's a different problem though I guess.
Maybe we're just somebody's porn collection.
Back in the early 80's when I was a pot smokoer I had a rather nice crop.
How did I do it? I used our little garden tiller to till a nice patch behind our yard that was screened by forest but let plenty of light in.
Then I popped some seeds in the ground and waited. That's all. I didn't even bother to weed the patch much. Now, without the tiller there would have been a bit more work up front, but not a huge amount.
outlaw thumbs.
Introduced by Peter King, a vile REPUBLICAN congressman.
I actually WAS arrested for #6 once, though it was a false arrest. I asked them if they wanted us to leave (it's common for Buffalo cops to tell groups of young people congregating to leave) and they said no, etc., arrested me.
In the arrest report, it says that I refused to comply with an order to disperse, and I was charged with disorderly conduct.
Yeah, a Buffalo cop grabbed me by the collar and threatened to arrest me because I laughed and said "do that again, let me get it on video" after that cop gave a person the finger (the person had asked for the cop's badge number.)
He pulled me close to him and I chuckled and said "for what?" Then a superior officer called the guy off and told him to cool off. I was not worried about being arrested because there were about 30 witnesses.
"When the President does it, that mean's it's not illegal" - Richard M. Nixon
Here in NY, my friend and I were threatened with arrest because my friend flipped off a neighbor who cut him off. The guy called the cops, cop shows up at my friends house and proceeds to tell us that making an "obscene gesture" is a crime.
I once related this anecdote before here on /., and had to deal with some morons calling me a liar, saying that such a thing couldn't possibly have happened.
STATE senators. Not the state's U.S. Senators, but STATE senators - people elected to the South Carolina State Senate.
"So far, strip mining our oceans (3/4th our entire planet surface) isn't economically viable yet. Once the technology and scale of industry provides the means, it will happen."
Well isn't that just a wonderful thing to look forward to. I'm sure there couldn't be any negative consequences from that... not at all.
OK, I'm cracking up that someone modded that as "informative."
There has to be at LEAST 76 virgins on slashdot.
I thought we were supposed to be looking for ways to be more energy efficient, not ways to be less energy efficient?
Gosh, you're pleasant. Buffalo, NY - 26k vacant homes. It's quite possible that more than 1/2 of them are not in reasonably livable condition, which would mean a mere 10k vacant homes. The city owns many thousands of them due to back taxes and can't afford to tear them down.
Buffalo's population has dropped by half since the 1950s, and the whole metro area's population has dropped... and is still dropping, the suburbs, etc... yet sprawl in still going on,woodlands and wetlands being destroyed at a fast rate.
A guy defending people who buy woodlands and wetlands to erect massive homes is a socialist?
That's a new one.
People need places to live? True. Though the population in this area is dropping, and has been dropping for over 50 years... and there are over 26 THOUSAND vacant homes in the nearby city, and everyone is complaining that the young leave, and people say things like "last one out, turn off the lights..." and the inner and outer-ring suburbs are being abandoned as people move into the sprawl in what was once rural and farming land. So, at least here it's not "people need some place to live," so much as it's people constantly wanting newer, bigger homes and a lack of planning to build those where the new vacancies are popping up. So here we are with a declining population, yet increasing sprawl, and huge swaths of the city turning into urban prairie, where you'll see literally two-square blocks in the city with only one or two occupied houses in them.
Funny you should say that. The house that the worst guy built in the field next door - destroying a field, wetlands, the area that deer used to cross in, where wild turkeys used to congregate in scores, where there was a stream with fish, all destroyed and moved... just finished building his monstrosity a year ago.
The place took almost two years to build, and he finally got to move in. Suddenly there's a "for sale" sign out front. I wonder what happened.
So, beautiful wild land full of nature and wildlife was destroyed to make room for a soon-to-be-vacant house.
My neighbors are typical americans - they came out into what was the countryside (our house was in the middle of nowhere for decades, now it looks like suburbs.)
After they built their McMansions, closer together than some of the houses in the city, using up the woods and fields I used to romp in, they installed huge arrays of sodium-vapor lighting on their houses, which they leave on 24 hours a day. For "security," or to make it homey, or whatever.
I used to go in the back yard to stargaze, I could even see the aurora borealis sometimes - in NY! We never even bothered to replace the outside floodlight over the driveway for years after it died, but the latest thing for all these new people seems to be to have a gazillion lights. Houses, cars, SUVs, three-wheelers, all festooned with lights - long driveways lined with bright lights left on at all times.
I don't get it. Why do people move out to the country if they don't want it to be like the country?
I play piano, and I have recorded some of my compositions via the "mechanism" in my digital piano, and there's something interesting I noticed - when I record the piece using the piano's own proprietary file format, it is reproduced EXACTLY as I played it... but when I convert that into MIDI, it doesn't have anywhere near the subtlety - there doesn't seem to me anywhere's near the resolution in velocity that the machine's proprietary method uses.
All of which leads me to believe that there's something inherently limiting in MIDI - that it is, frankly, an obsolete format - that new digital interface methods better reproduce the mechanics of a performance. I wonder if anyone else has noticed this? Is there a MIDI 2.o in the works to address this?
Actually, the family was American.
I was buying things online via Compuserve in the 1980s. It wasn't "pretty unbelievable" even then.
Not to mention the idea of patronizing companies who treat their employees well over patronizing those who mistreat them. And forced Scientology training is certainly mistreatment.
"Casualty" should only be used for minor injuries. There's nothing casual about being killed.
might be good for fuel tankers, though.