i laugh every time i hear about how much the US and europe "consume" we may consume a lot of resources but many of those are consumed in th eprocess of PRODUCING food, and materials for export to the 3rd world. The us for example is not a net conumer of food. We produce more than we eat. We are a net consumer of energy BUT much of that energy is used to produce grain to send to the rest of the world; cars, medicine and otehr consumer goods for export and then durable goods like factories and other things for industry in other lands.
also when survival rates are LOWER people want to have more kids. This is to insure the greatest survival rate for their kids. It makes reproductive sense.
look water is not really used up...it is just made dirty or salty. Once taking the salt out gets cheap enough it will fix our water needs for HUNDREDS of years.
also much of the farm land in the US is not used...it is held in reserve. Much forest land could be used better for paper production by growing hemp or jute. There are SO many things we could do to use our land better. We woudl too if it wasn;t so plentiful and cheap. Also most of the 3rd world does not use modern farming. Simply converting the 3rd world to modern methods would increase the yield of their land a great deal.
actually it was not the green movement of the seventies that curbed population growth in the US. The birth rate had already declined by the time I( 1973) was born. Most likely it was access to the pill, abortion, other means of contraception combined with the increase of women in the work place and the status of retired people. People want to have kids BUT large families are too burdensome to most. A large family was , in th epast, needed to insure your care as a senior. Now we have other ways to pay for retirement.
And technology , mostly in imaging, is to credit for finding more oil, not the enviromentalist. They did manage to increase MPG on cars though, but OPEC had more to do with that than anybody.
you may be an engineer but you know little about farming boy! The reason you keep cattle on so much land is NOT for comfort. They eat the scrub and grass that grows on the land. Some land ( west texas) requires an acre or MORE per cow. Other places( Scottland) can fit several cows per acre on it's lush green pasture land. Also I thnk if we put all the worlds population in say TExas and Alaska( assuming it doubles and i doubt it ever gets higher than that) I am sure that with modern( much less future) farming methods we could feed everybody on what was left.
Also remember that most of the world is ocean. The ocean could be made much more productive by simply farming in and on top of it. WE can farm kelp in the ocean. We can farm fish in the ocean. With recent technology in desalinazation we will soon be able ot farm on TOP of the ocean with hydroponic systems that take the salt out of the water.
I might ad that flood prices in most western countries are artificially high do to goverment price protections. We could see an increase in costs a littl ebit and we would not suffer too much.
accept that as other countries increase consumption they too will increase efficency in production and can produce more THUS packing more foot into a smaller "shoe".
The ocean is one example. We stil are hunter gatherers there...we will soon farm the ocean, thus producing many more fish per cubic ft.
they are NOT worried about piracy..they are protecting the model. They do NOT want unlicensed game production, not piracy of games made. What if I start turning out an X box game that does not need their code and can play on an X box without paying them a cent?
I think the idea about expired copyright work and works in the public domaian is VERY important when talkng about p2p issues with DMCA. Trading code from freeware( even ads can be placed in it) free or old music, text files of older books, etc are all VERY valid uses for p2p.
here in texas you can't randomly or sequentially dial numbers via machine. You can selectively dial numbers non sequentially. In other words you SELECT numbers from a ranomdized list in a non sequential order.
actuallt simply telling a TM to place you on a DNC is not legally binding..nor is y ou answering machine. In most states and under federal law you have to prove you have told them. In Texas we have a statewide DNC also. In other states you simply get the companies address( they are required to give it, and notify them via registered mail. They also can try the number again after 1 year or more. I really recomend just not buying from TM's if you do not want calls. You will still get a few calls, but really if you are so anal retentive that you can't handle that maybe you should have your phone cut off or screen all calls.
The democrats really have done nothing to combat the DMCA, besides that they get a LOT of money and support from hollywood and to a lesser degree from the music industry. MAny republicans on the other hand are miffed at the media( for good reason) and tend to be more pro biz and pro freedom( well most freedoms)
well it will just open the door for more content restrictions by ISP's that have NOTHING to do with child porn. Also it will open the door for monitoring of communications and restricting anon and posting in general. I have seen plans for a p2p type web, where content could be placed without a trace and it woudl be hard to shut off. I think that time has come.
nick cave...murder ballads..." I'm a mean mother fucker don't you know..and I'll crawl over 50 good pussies just to get to one fat boys asshole." how about when he was with the birthday party adn put out an albumn called "Drunk on the Pope's Blood"?
why is nasa opposed to space tourism? I think a national space tourist lotto would raise enough to fund NASA at 3 times what it gets now. Say sell the tickets for 10-20 per person...one drawing a year.
dude i would prolly go....i mean it would be a hrd choice...like if i could take the ride..or sell the ticket for 20 million...a life of leasure on earth or a chance to go into space. Of course i could die on the trip, and i am afraid of flying. I still think i would go into space.
I totally agree with this. He was great for Tim Burton's batman. That was a darker batman. I think Alec Baldwin in the Shadow( or anything else he sucks). George clooney for batman, yuck.
wel IM's if using a standard would make many call center type departments much less expensive. They could reduce hold time, cut LD costs and help more customers per agent. Also for finacial co's they could more easily trade over IM's.
i have an idea...who cares.poisoning will be a good thing for many of the p2p folk i know. Do you think that the RIAA and other C*CKSUC*ERS are gonna shell out the cash to poison the few people DLing a rare nick cave cover of the beatles OR poison that looks like the new britney spears crap'ola? What will likely happen is that the fluffy pop music will get DLed from the corperate scumbags that spawn it, while the cool underground music will still be available to all who are into it. The best part is, with all the teeny boppers DL ing britney spears GONE, the P2P clients should work faster for people like me! YEA!
well regular mail is in fact so cheap because people send out bulk mail. The bulk mail pays for you to get a letter carrier every day(in most places). No bulk mail, no every day mail...so we would have a much slower PO. Also some places do not get there mail at home...some areas are designated general delivery by the USPS. They must pic up mail in town or at a post office box on the mail carrier's route.
i have looked and small stream generators are the best source for a rural home as far as cost and output. This is of course providing you live near one. After that I would go with wind over solar. The wind generators are cheaper, and where i live there is plenty of wind. Wind with battery and all is WAY cheaper than having lines ran if you are way off the grid.
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i laugh every time i hear about how much the US and europe "consume" we may consume a lot of resources but many of those are consumed in th eprocess of PRODUCING food, and materials for export to the 3rd world. The us for example is not a net conumer of food. We produce more than we eat. We are a net consumer of energy BUT much of that energy is used to produce grain to send to the rest of the world; cars, medicine and otehr consumer goods for export and then durable goods like factories and other things for industry in other lands.
also when survival rates are LOWER people want to have more kids. This is to insure the greatest survival rate for their kids. It makes reproductive sense.
look water is not really used up...it is just made dirty or salty. Once taking the salt out gets cheap enough it will fix our water needs for HUNDREDS of years.
also much of the farm land in the US is not used...it is held in reserve. Much forest land could be used better for paper production by growing hemp or jute. There are SO many things we could do to use our land better. We woudl too if it wasn;t so plentiful and cheap. Also most of the 3rd world does not use modern farming. Simply converting the 3rd world to modern methods would increase the yield of their land a great deal.
we culd all move to antarctica and the deserts and then grow our food in the rest of the world! Our wste could be recycled!
actually it was not the green movement of the seventies that curbed population growth in the US. The birth rate had already declined by the time I( 1973) was born. Most likely it was access to the pill, abortion, other means of contraception combined with the increase of women in the work place and the status of retired people. People want to have kids BUT large families are too burdensome to most. A large family was , in th epast, needed to insure your care as a senior. Now we have other ways to pay for retirement. And technology , mostly in imaging, is to credit for finding more oil, not the enviromentalist. They did manage to increase MPG on cars though, but OPEC had more to do with that than anybody.
you may be an engineer but you know little about farming boy! The reason you keep cattle on so much land is NOT for comfort. They eat the scrub and grass that grows on the land. Some land ( west texas) requires an acre or MORE per cow. Other places( Scottland) can fit several cows per acre on it's lush green pasture land. Also I thnk if we put all the worlds population in say TExas and Alaska( assuming it doubles and i doubt it ever gets higher than that) I am sure that with modern( much less future) farming methods we could feed everybody on what was left. Also remember that most of the world is ocean. The ocean could be made much more productive by simply farming in and on top of it. WE can farm kelp in the ocean. We can farm fish in the ocean. With recent technology in desalinazation we will soon be able ot farm on TOP of the ocean with hydroponic systems that take the salt out of the water. I might ad that flood prices in most western countries are artificially high do to goverment price protections. We could see an increase in costs a littl ebit and we would not suffer too much.
accept that as other countries increase consumption they too will increase efficency in production and can produce more THUS packing more foot into a smaller "shoe".
The ocean is one example. We stil are hunter gatherers there...we will soon farm the ocean, thus producing many more fish per cubic ft.
they are NOT worried about piracy..they are protecting the model. They do NOT want unlicensed game production, not piracy of games made. What if I start turning out an X box game that does not need their code and can play on an X box without paying them a cent?
I think the idea about expired copyright work and works in the public domaian is VERY important when talkng about p2p issues with DMCA. Trading code from freeware( even ads can be placed in it) free or old music, text files of older books, etc are all VERY valid uses for p2p.
Hemp(Mary Jane) would produce even more fuel per acre than sugar cane or corn. It can also be grown on worse land.
burning plants will release slightly less than CO2 than they remove from the air. This is do to CO2 trapped in the soil from the plants roots.
here in texas you can't randomly or sequentially dial numbers via machine. You can selectively dial numbers non sequentially. In other words you SELECT numbers from a ranomdized list in a non sequential order.
actuallt simply telling a TM to place you on a DNC is not legally binding..nor is y ou answering machine. In most states and under federal law you have to prove you have told them. In Texas we have a statewide DNC also. In other states you simply get the companies address( they are required to give it, and notify them via registered mail. They also can try the number again after 1 year or more. I really recomend just not buying from TM's if you do not want calls. You will still get a few calls, but really if you are so anal retentive that you can't handle that maybe you should have your phone cut off or screen all calls.
The democrats really have done nothing to combat the DMCA, besides that they get a LOT of money and support from hollywood and to a lesser degree from the music industry. MAny republicans on the other hand are miffed at the media( for good reason) and tend to be more pro biz and pro freedom( well most freedoms)
well it will just open the door for more content restrictions by ISP's that have NOTHING to do with child porn. Also it will open the door for monitoring of communications and restricting anon and posting in general. I have seen plans for a p2p type web, where content could be placed without a trace and it woudl be hard to shut off. I think that time has come.
nick cave...murder ballads..." I'm a mean mother fucker don't you know ..and I'll crawl over 50 good pussies just to get to one fat boys asshole."
how about when he was with the birthday party adn put out an albumn called "Drunk on the Pope's Blood"?
why is nasa opposed to space tourism? I think a national space tourist lotto would raise enough to fund NASA at 3 times what it gets now. Say sell the tickets for 10-20 per person...one drawing a year.
dude i would prolly go....i mean it would be a hrd choice...like if i could take the ride..or sell the ticket for 20 million...a life of leasure on earth or a chance to go into space. Of course i could die on the trip, and i am afraid of flying. I still think i would go into space.
well you could make "refurbished" apple's...using an old case or something..then fixing it by adding new parts and OS.
I totally agree with this. He was great for Tim Burton's batman. That was a darker batman. I think Alec Baldwin in the Shadow( or anything else he sucks). George clooney for batman, yuck.
wel IM's if using a standard would make many call center type departments much less expensive. They could reduce hold time, cut LD costs and help more customers per agent. Also for finacial co's they could more easily trade over IM's.
i have an idea...who cares.poisoning will be a good thing for many of the p2p folk i know. Do you think that the RIAA and other C*CKSUC*ERS are gonna shell out the cash to poison the few people DLing a rare nick cave cover of the beatles OR poison that looks like the new britney spears crap'ola? What will likely happen is that the fluffy pop music will get DLed from the corperate scumbags that spawn it, while the cool underground music will still be available to all who are into it. The best part is, with all the teeny boppers DL ing britney spears GONE, the P2P clients should work faster for people like me! YEA!
well regular mail is in fact so cheap because people send out bulk mail. The bulk mail pays for you to get a letter carrier every day(in most places). No bulk mail, no every day mail...so we would have a much slower PO. Also some places do not get there mail at home...some areas are designated general delivery by the USPS. They must pic up mail in town or at a post office box on the mail carrier's route.
i have looked and small stream generators are the best source for a rural home as far as cost and output. This is of course providing you live near one. After that I would go with wind over solar. The wind generators are cheaper, and where i live there is plenty of wind. Wind with battery and all is WAY cheaper than having lines ran if you are way off the grid.