Well, T-Mobile's most expensive unlimited everything (and apparently not throttled), is $70. There is also an Unlimited-but-throttled plan (5gb @ 4g, the remaining at 3G), with unlimited text and 100 minutes of talk: that's only $30.
I live in a medium sized town (about 80,000 people, next largest town is 25 miles away and smaller), and I have decent 4g coverage. No problem streaming videos on Netflix.
The "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care" line of reasoning, is the primary tool of tyrants, and how can you be sure you have nothing to hide from that type? Depending on their whims, the time of day you go to bed may be a black mark.
Sounds like a classic nuisance suit, though it may be that it is the surrounding farmers that would be the defendants rather than Monsanto, because it is the surrounding farmers that allowed the nuisance to escape their property. If however, enough farmers suffered liability for using Monsanto's corn, Monsanto might have a hard time selling it.
In addition to your points, 100 years is actually a pretty short timescale. Prolonged loss of water resources that have become relied upon has been a factor in the collapse of many civilizations that lasted much more than 100 years. The Anasazi come to mind off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are others.
we could easily fix it by eating less beef -- at least beef that wasn't grass-fed.
Not sure if that was a typo, but the researchers came to the opposite conclusion.
From the first article:
Another way to shrink our water footprint is to change our eating habits, Postel says. In particular, people can opt to eat less meat or to switch from grain-fed beef -- which, again, requires about 5300 liters of water for each dollar's worth of grain fed to a cow -- to grass-fed beef, which typically requires only the rainwater falling on a pasture. "Not all burgers are created equal," she says.
Basically, at the point where you might consider it on a large scale, it's generally just easier to use fresh or drinking quality recycled water.
From the (first) article:
Also, unlike most previous studies, the new analysis doesn't just measure the amount of water pumped from surface and underground sources, it considers the possibility that that water, once withdrawn, can be recycled and reused several times before it flows to the sea...
And from the paper itself (second link), grey water accounts for 15% of the total global consumption. Realize, that they use the term "grey water" to refer to contaminated water used not only in agriculture, but also in industry.
The report also distinguishes between blue water (surface and ground) and green water (rain). Green water is used the most (74%), but that shouldn't discount the fact that draining aquifers at a rate faster than they can replenish has significant negative future consequences.
I don't care about any of that -- what really sucks about Obama is that he is indistinguishable from Bush. Obama's administration, like GWB's was before, is an evil, warmongering, imperial presidency with all the concomitant destruction of our civil liberties/rights. And worse, because he's a Democrat, the Democrats don't push back, making what was once a radical usurpation of power under Bush, the new normal. We're fucked.
There is nothing preventing gay couples from expressing their love for one another. The government doesn't deal in "love".
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When a loved one is in the hospital, you naturally want to be at the bedside. But what if the staff won't allow it?
That's what Janice Langbehn, a social worker in Lacey, Wash., says she experienced when her partner of 18 years, Lisa Pond, collapsed with an aneurysm during a Florida vacation and was taken to a Miami trauma center. She died there, at age 39, as Ms. Langbehn tried in vain to persuade hospital officials to let her visit, along with the couple's adopted children.
"I have this deep sense of failure for not being at Lisa's bedside when she died," Ms. Langbehn said. "How I get over that I donâ(TM)t know, or if I ever do."
I don't know, the same thing when he made the War Powers Act irrelevant and vested the sole power to make war in the president, similar to how things were in Europe a couple hundred years ago? Or maybe he just likes the Medical Insurance lobby more than the drug companies and decided to do a massive giveaway to them instead.
Democrats should not compare Obama to Bush, because Obama's first term is indistinguishable from a GWB third term. Or if you do compare the two, you should do so with terms of reverence for Bush/Cheney, because Obama has embraced every single policy of those two.
The drone killings were bad when Bush did it. Obama has simply gone to the next level. Bush didn't kill Americans. Bush averaged 6.5 drone attacks per year. Obama is managing to get one in every four DAYS. With respect to drone attacks, the astounding fact of the matter is that Obama is 14x more evil than Bush, and considering what an evil SOB Bush was, that's amazing.
At least the people being killed are supposedly guilty of a real crime
Like Al Alwaki, an American citizen Obama executed by drone strike because of youtube videos? At least that is all we have to go on because he was never indicted, never charged, never given a trial before being "deprived of life" as REQUIRED in the constitution. Are you saying posting videos on youtube which the Feds don't like should be a death penalty offense? Because that's where we're at right now -- state sponsored murder due to content of speech. Seems like we're more on an equal footing with SA rather than morally superior.
instead of opposing a fascist government its now about opposing a government controlled by big corporations
Was that intentional? Like in "King of the Hill" where a character says something along the lines of: I'm not sad, I just feel sense hopelessness and depressed mood. If it was intentional, very funny.
You should talk to your insurance agent. I have an old car which I keep because it has a hitch on it and every now and then I tow a little utility trailer or a small boat with it. I still have a high limit policy, but I pay a much reduced rate because I drive the car less than 6000 miles per year (*) -- I can't recall how much less it was, but it was a lot less.
* 6000 is the yearly mileage limit on the policy -- I could get by with a 200 mile/yr policy, but I don't think they sell that.
The difference in cost between a side street accident and one at 90 mph can be pretty high. As an example, I was the recent recipient of a low speed rear-ending. The grand total: $427 to inspect my bumper and fix two marks made by the license plate screws, plus whatever it cost the driver's insurance company to rent me a car for two days.
Had I been involved in an accident at even legal highway speeds, this would have been way more than $500 in damages. So, it might be cheaper to insure a less safe driver who stays off the freeway, than to insure a safe driver who spends a lot of time on the freeway. I don't know if that is the case, but it would be an interesting statistic. In fact, perhaps even the insurance companies don't know that data -- a few years of GPS data would definitely provide some interesting info (setting aside privacy issues etc.).
I was going to say the same thing about my Garmin -- I doubt it's off by more than 50' when passing a speed sign. I wonder if the state keeps coordinates for its signs, or if Garmin hires people to drive down every street and make a waypoint for each sign. Anyway, every time I see the speed limit change on my GPS, I'm impressed at the scale of the data collection (either by the state agencies if they keep the data, or by Garmin if it collects the data itself).
Jenny's got you covered (usually -- Rite Aid recently invalidated the number so I now I just go to Walgreens where they don't require cards for sale prices).
Anyway, just tack your area code on to the number 867-5309, and usually about a dozen names will come up. Just pick one.
The hard part is saying it as a natural phone number rather than 8675 - 3 oooh ni-ine.
The big difference is, one is in real life, and one is a mere depiction.
Is there a difference between looking at news photos of a lynching, and participating in a lynching? Under your logic, you'd say "no" -- which is crazy. One act is merely looking at pictographic evidence of one sort, the other act is murder. In reality, there's a huge difference between things done in media, and things done in real life.
You are so wrong. The president has the power to decide how to fight the wars congress declares:
The Congress shall have power...
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
The whole point of the constitution was separate the powers of government to prevent the tyrannical acts so frequently observed by the founders in the European monarchies, such as allowing one person the power to decide whether to got to war and how to fight it. Obama has now reconsolidated that power into the hands of one person, thanks to his actions in Libya. But because nobody fights back, the stage is set. The short sighted Democrats who can't drag themselves to criticize Obama, have set the stage for real disaster. I'm not saying Obama isn't equally evil as Cheney, he and his policies are, but to the whipped Ds out there -- do you really want a Cheney being the sole decider of war? If no -- you need to start ripping Obama to shreds, because your silence is causing that to happen.
Of course it interferes with interstate commerce, specifically, it interferes with CIA's ability to fund dictators because those who grow their own don't buy from the big wholesalers who engage in interstate and international drug deals.
the arguments that I hear from some people along the lines of "we can't let the hicks stop teaching evolution,"
One thing to point out to people who make this argument, is that the same blanket law that allows the teaching of evolution, could turn into a blanket law that forbids it. Imagine Santorum setting education policy. And before anyone says the President can't do that -- look at what Obama has done and compare it to his constitutional powers -- GWB was right when he called the constitution "just a piece of paper" -- in practice, that's all it has become.
Secondly, I say this not as someone who wants see science based learning ditched -- I'm an atheist and anti-religionist -- but realistically, science based education, or abortion, or <insert_social_issue> would be safer in the long run, if the Federal government didn't exert complete control. While its true the bible belt would be a wasteland, there are plenty of regions which would be happy to profit as the arts and sciences concentrate in regions on the correct side of these social issues (which happens anyway), and as an added bonus, those regions would be safe from the Santorums of the world.
Back then, all the online service providers charged quite a lot. I used Delphi because its $20 for 20hrs/mo plan was the best deal going. If I recall, when AOL came out, it was 3 hrs included and then $3/hr after that -- you could also get GeoWorks with AOL, which was neat (and you didn't need to keep AOL to keep GeoWorks) -- AOL had a GUI interface whereas Delphi was text only, but anyway... nostalgia. Sierra Online, can't recall what that cost -- can't even recall what you could do with it. BBSs were interesting but most of them were long distance for me -- remember 10c/min for a long distance call was a good price? I haven't though about long distance in years -- I wonder how many young people have never even heard of the concept. I'm getting old.
Obama is a fucking Republican you retard. What the fuck does the mainstream Democratic party call someone who is pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-dronebombing, pro-due-process-free-detention, pro-due-process-free-execution, pro-goldman-sachs, pro-protecting-torturers, pro-persecuting-whistleblowers, pro-PATRIOT-Act... if Obama is the lesser evil, then lets just get it done with now by getting the greater evil in -- that we can have a revolution sooner and get back to being America. Obama's brand of lesser evil is so fucking evil it makes me want to spit.
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Well, T-Mobile's most expensive unlimited everything (and apparently not throttled), is $70. There is also an Unlimited-but-throttled plan (5gb @ 4g, the remaining at 3G), with unlimited text and 100 minutes of talk: that's only $30.
I live in a medium sized town (about 80,000 people, next largest town is 25 miles away and smaller), and I have decent 4g coverage. No problem streaming videos on Netflix.
Plan chart:
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans
Privacy is a self-validating principal.
The "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care" line of reasoning, is the primary tool of tyrants, and how can you be sure you have nothing to hide from that type? Depending on their whims, the time of day you go to bed may be a black mark.
Sounds like a classic nuisance suit, though it may be that it is the surrounding farmers that would be the defendants rather than Monsanto, because it is the surrounding farmers that allowed the nuisance to escape their property. If however, enough farmers suffered liability for using Monsanto's corn, Monsanto might have a hard time selling it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_nuisance
In addition to your points, 100 years is actually a pretty short timescale. Prolonged loss of water resources that have become relied upon has been a factor in the collapse of many civilizations that lasted much more than 100 years. The Anasazi come to mind off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are others.
Not sure if that was a typo, but the researchers came to the opposite conclusion.
From the first article:
From the (first) article:
And from the paper itself (second link), grey water accounts for 15% of the total global consumption. Realize, that they use the term "grey water" to refer to contaminated water used not only in agriculture, but also in industry.
The report also distinguishes between blue water (surface and ground) and green water (rain). Green water is used the most (74%), but that shouldn't discount the fact that draining aquifers at a rate faster than they can replenish has significant negative future consequences.
A book I'm going to need to read soon has an awesome title:
The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
I don't care about any of that -- what really sucks about Obama is that he is indistinguishable from Bush. Obama's administration, like GWB's was before, is an evil, warmongering, imperial presidency with all the concomitant destruction of our civil liberties/rights. And worse, because he's a Democrat, the Democrats don't push back, making what was once a radical usurpation of power under Bush, the new normal. We're fucked.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/health/19well.html
I don't know, the same thing when he made the War Powers Act irrelevant and vested the sole power to make war in the president, similar to how things were in Europe a couple hundred years ago? Or maybe he just likes the Medical Insurance lobby more than the drug companies and decided to do a massive giveaway to them instead.
Democrats should not compare Obama to Bush, because Obama's first term is indistinguishable from a GWB third term. Or if you do compare the two, you should do so with terms of reverence for Bush/Cheney, because Obama has embraced every single policy of those two.
From a British perspective, Puritans were dangerous terrorists -- they went so far as to kill King Charles I because they believed he was debauched.
The drone killings were bad when Bush did it. Obama has simply gone to the next level. Bush didn't kill Americans. Bush averaged 6.5 drone attacks per year. Obama is managing to get one in every four DAYS. With respect to drone attacks, the astounding fact of the matter is that Obama is 14x more evil than Bush, and considering what an evil SOB Bush was, that's amazing.
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/04/get-the-data-obamas-terror-drones/
Like Al Alwaki, an American citizen Obama executed by drone strike because of youtube videos? At least that is all we have to go on because he was never indicted, never charged, never given a trial before being "deprived of life" as REQUIRED in the constitution. Are you saying posting videos on youtube which the Feds don't like should be a death penalty offense? Because that's where we're at right now -- state sponsored murder due to content of speech. Seems like we're more on an equal footing with SA rather than morally superior.
And they deserved it. Now we need the V response to Obama's tenure.
Was that intentional? Like in "King of the Hill" where a character says something along the lines of: I'm not sad, I just feel sense hopelessness and depressed mood. If it was intentional, very funny.
You should talk to your insurance agent. I have an old car which I keep because it has a hitch on it and every now and then I tow a little utility trailer or a small boat with it. I still have a high limit policy, but I pay a much reduced rate because I drive the car less than 6000 miles per year (*) -- I can't recall how much less it was, but it was a lot less.
* 6000 is the yearly mileage limit on the policy -- I could get by with a 200 mile/yr policy, but I don't think they sell that.
The difference in cost between a side street accident and one at 90 mph can be pretty high. As an example, I was the recent recipient of a low speed rear-ending. The grand total: $427 to inspect my bumper and fix two marks made by the license plate screws, plus whatever it cost the driver's insurance company to rent me a car for two days.
Had I been involved in an accident at even legal highway speeds, this would have been way more than $500 in damages. So, it might be cheaper to insure a less safe driver who stays off the freeway, than to insure a safe driver who spends a lot of time on the freeway. I don't know if that is the case, but it would be an interesting statistic. In fact, perhaps even the insurance companies don't know that data -- a few years of GPS data would definitely provide some interesting info (setting aside privacy issues etc.).
I was going to say the same thing about my Garmin -- I doubt it's off by more than 50' when passing a speed sign. I wonder if the state keeps coordinates for its signs, or if Garmin hires people to drive down every street and make a waypoint for each sign. Anyway, every time I see the speed limit change on my GPS, I'm impressed at the scale of the data collection (either by the state agencies if they keep the data, or by Garmin if it collects the data itself).
Jenny's got you covered (usually -- Rite Aid recently invalidated the number so I now I just go to Walgreens where they don't require cards for sale prices).
Anyway, just tack your area code on to the number 867-5309, and usually about a dozen names will come up. Just pick one.
The hard part is saying it as a natural phone number rather than 8675 - 3 oooh ni-ine.
The big difference is, one is in real life, and one is a mere depiction.
Is there a difference between looking at news photos of a lynching, and participating in a lynching? Under your logic, you'd say "no" -- which is crazy. One act is merely looking at pictographic evidence of one sort, the other act is murder. In reality, there's a huge difference between things done in media, and things done in real life.
You are so wrong. The president has the power to decide how to fight the wars congress declares:
The whole point of the constitution was separate the powers of government to prevent the tyrannical acts so frequently observed by the founders in the European monarchies, such as allowing one person the power to decide whether to got to war and how to fight it. Obama has now reconsolidated that power into the hands of one person, thanks to his actions in Libya. But because nobody fights back, the stage is set. The short sighted Democrats who can't drag themselves to criticize Obama, have set the stage for real disaster. I'm not saying Obama isn't equally evil as Cheney, he and his policies are, but to the whipped Ds out there -- do you really want a Cheney being the sole decider of war? If no -- you need to start ripping Obama to shreds, because your silence is causing that to happen.
Of course it interferes with interstate commerce, specifically, it interferes with CIA's ability to fund dictators because those who grow their own don't buy from the big wholesalers who engage in interstate and international drug deals.
One thing to point out to people who make this argument, is that the same blanket law that allows the teaching of evolution, could turn into a blanket law that forbids it. Imagine Santorum setting education policy. And before anyone says the President can't do that -- look at what Obama has done and compare it to his constitutional powers -- GWB was right when he called the constitution "just a piece of paper" -- in practice, that's all it has become.
Secondly, I say this not as someone who wants see science based learning ditched -- I'm an atheist and anti-religionist -- but realistically, science based education, or abortion, or <insert_social_issue> would be safer in the long run, if the Federal government didn't exert complete control. While its true the bible belt would be a wasteland, there are plenty of regions which would be happy to profit as the arts and sciences concentrate in regions on the correct side of these social issues (which happens anyway), and as an added bonus, those regions would be safe from the Santorums of the world.
Back then, all the online service providers charged quite a lot. I used Delphi because its $20 for 20hrs/mo plan was the best deal going. If I recall, when AOL came out, it was 3 hrs included and then $3/hr after that -- you could also get GeoWorks with AOL, which was neat (and you didn't need to keep AOL to keep GeoWorks) -- AOL had a GUI interface whereas Delphi was text only, but anyway ... nostalgia. Sierra Online, can't recall what that cost -- can't even recall what you could do with it. BBSs were interesting but most of them were long distance for me -- remember 10c/min for a long distance call was a good price? I haven't though about long distance in years -- I wonder how many young people have never even heard of the concept. I'm getting old.
Obama is a fucking Republican you retard. What the fuck does the mainstream Democratic party call someone who is pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-dronebombing, pro-due-process-free-detention, pro-due-process-free-execution, pro-goldman-sachs, pro-protecting-torturers, pro-persecuting-whistleblowers, pro-PATRIOT-Act ... if Obama is the lesser evil, then lets just get it done with now by getting the greater evil in -- that we can have a revolution sooner and get back to being America. Obama's brand of lesser evil is so fucking evil it makes me want to spit.