Really, what kind of harm is that one bag doing to you? Do you sue McDonalds for every soda cup some jackass threw out of his car window, or Kleenex for every snot-rag that blew out of someone's trash can? You're part of the problem.
Heck, when was the last time you saw anyone throwing away plastic shopping bags, without reusing them first?
This. I live in southeast Pennsylvania, where the bag recycling bins at the supermarket are always full, and everyone reuses the un-ripped ones to line their wastebaskets. This seems effective, as I don't see the herds of plastic bags roaming the streets like the ecoshirts tell me. My fellow eco-conscious Pennsylvanians will eventually be penalized for this imaginary plastic bag eco-crisis, nonetheless.
Not washing reusable bags is killing people (maybe?)
That brings me to my complaint that nothing comes out clean from the wash because the eco-lobby got phosphates taken out of the detergent. I found out that the phosphates' purpose was to mitigate hard water, so I softened my water-- and the eco lobby says that the salt is bad. So I decided to just throw away all my clothes once they got stained. That should make them happy now.
Doesn't the article say that, in fact, outbreaks of enterocolitis ARE going up in Europe? Europe, where bans on plastic bags are common, yet somehow this proves dirty reusable bags are NOT the cause?
The key, says the Urban Green Councilâ€(TM)s executive director, Russell Unger, is that the city must begin to view buildings as infrastructure, like roads and sewers, rather than simply as private property.
I tend to see them as private property-- because they are. As much as I support green energy, I oppose increasing government power. I find the use of government to impose regulation on the people when not in the interest of defending the rights and safety of others to be immoral. A city is a place to live, not a toy that special interests should be allowed to tinker with, especially using the $167 billion I assume they will be stealing from taxpayers who probably won't even live in NYC, but will be from around the state or even around the USA through federal graft.
I guess this sanctimonious prick thinks that everyone should clean their cars before getting their cars cleaned, like how people do their best tooth-brushing before going to the dentist.
Frankly, if the auto manufacturers had just installed the ancient technology known as a "1/8' stereo jack" into their audio systems, I would be happy. I'm guessing that, considering how rare it is in OEM head units, some bean-counters must have decided that having a simple, high-fidelity way to attach nearly any portable music player to your sound system would have cut too much into their sales of crappy dealer-installed CD changers and underpowered MP3 support. Seriously: why is it that my cars from 1995, 2004, and 2005 don't have this?
No, that wouldn't be logical at all. A bell curve would also fit that argument.
Let's put it this way: the President, shortly after taking office on a promise of not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250K, raised tobacco taxes to help pay for CHIP. Besides raising funds, the claimed benefit would be to stop smoking. Ignoring the fact that those are two conflicting missions, would you say that REDUCING taxes to zero would get EVERYONE smoking? That's similar to your argument. Obviously, the President and Congress agree with us that a behavior is discouraged by increasing expense. Companies can, and will, shrink their businesses and lay off employees if they believe it will make them more viable in the face of increased costs.
Sorry, but everyday people are not scientists, so they don't read papers. Every magazine, textbook, and newspaper reported "global cooling" for near a decade. And you wonder why people of my generation are skeptical of the "mainstream media"!
Thank goodness for that. We don't need more condescending, stubborn, ineffective, vainglorious leaders like this one. He operated in an obstructed fashion for two years and all he accomplished was to insult everyone who wasn't a Democrat and sign an abomination of a "health care" law that takes the wealth and freedom of the people and gives it to insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Oh, and kill a bunch of people with drones.
He's not a liberal. A liberal would not force people to buy products from companies, or force private companies to pay employees more than their labor is worth, or make most effective firearms illegal, or hand out billions to corny corporations. That's called a "progressive."
Insightful? In 1980, the top rate was 70%. It dropped to 50%, then 38.5 (already less than the current Dems want), then 28%. And the inexorable Slashdot race to the bottom continues...
You're correct; the value of that governance goes up, because you have more to protect. That's why a PROPORTIONAL tax of x% from everyone, which GOES UP AS YOU EARN MORE, is the only "fair" system.
On the bright side, you can upgrade to business class. It removes those restrictions, comes with two static IP addresses, and you get a LOS guarantee. It's not very expensive, as long as you make sure they keep your cable TV on a separate residential bill. Their business VOIP is ridiculously expensive, though-- go with VOIPo or Vonage if you want that.
Even he probably isn't. I doubt he included the delivery charge. He may live in an area where you can choose an electricity provider different from the company that maintains the lines, which means the costs are split out on the bill. That being said, he probably is saving just a little money hosting at home-- but a lot less than indicated.
You have me beat. I ebayed my DEC 3000s years ago (one of them was the awesome 600S) when I finally got a "new" DS10L, which is still running my web site. It was really annoying how the feet on the 3000 would melt under the heat and smear grey goo everywhere.
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Thanks for your carefully researched rebuttal that didn't have a trace of fallacious reasoning in it anywhere.
Really, what kind of harm is that one bag doing to you? Do you sue McDonalds for every soda cup some jackass threw out of his car window, or Kleenex for every snot-rag that blew out of someone's trash can? You're part of the problem.
This. I live in southeast Pennsylvania, where the bag recycling bins at the supermarket are always full, and everyone reuses the un-ripped ones to line their wastebaskets. This seems effective, as I don't see the herds of plastic bags roaming the streets like the ecoshirts tell me. My fellow eco-conscious Pennsylvanians will eventually be penalized for this imaginary plastic bag eco-crisis, nonetheless.
That brings me to my complaint that nothing comes out clean from the wash because the eco-lobby got phosphates taken out of the detergent. I found out that the phosphates' purpose was to mitigate hard water, so I softened my water-- and the eco lobby says that the salt is bad. So I decided to just throw away all my clothes once they got stained. That should make them happy now.
Doesn't the article say that, in fact, outbreaks of enterocolitis ARE going up in Europe? Europe, where bans on plastic bags are common, yet somehow this proves dirty reusable bags are NOT the cause?
I tend to see them as private property-- because they are. As much as I support green energy, I oppose increasing government power. I find the use of government to impose regulation on the people when not in the interest of defending the rights and safety of others to be immoral. A city is a place to live, not a toy that special interests should be allowed to tinker with, especially using the $167 billion I assume they will be stealing from taxpayers who probably won't even live in NYC, but will be from around the state or even around the USA through federal graft.
Where are my modpoints?
You must be a real team player.
Fuck sanctimonious children on Slashdot.
Those subsidies are paid for on the backs of other working taxpayers. I like green energy, but not government favoritism.
Police keep lobbying for remote cut-off controls in cars. After all, if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.
I guess this sanctimonious prick thinks that everyone should clean their cars before getting their cars cleaned, like how people do their best tooth-brushing before going to the dentist.
Frankly, if the auto manufacturers had just installed the ancient technology known as a "1/8' stereo jack" into their audio systems, I would be happy. I'm guessing that, considering how rare it is in OEM head units, some bean-counters must have decided that having a simple, high-fidelity way to attach nearly any portable music player to your sound system would have cut too much into their sales of crappy dealer-installed CD changers and underpowered MP3 support. Seriously: why is it that my cars from 1995, 2004, and 2005 don't have this?
No, that wouldn't be logical at all. A bell curve would also fit that argument.
Let's put it this way: the President, shortly after taking office on a promise of not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250K, raised tobacco taxes to help pay for CHIP. Besides raising funds, the claimed benefit would be to stop smoking. Ignoring the fact that those are two conflicting missions, would you say that REDUCING taxes to zero would get EVERYONE smoking? That's similar to your argument. Obviously, the President and Congress agree with us that a behavior is discouraged by increasing expense. Companies can, and will, shrink their businesses and lay off employees if they believe it will make them more viable in the face of increased costs.
Sorry, but everyday people are not scientists, so they don't read papers. Every magazine, textbook, and newspaper reported "global cooling" for near a decade. And you wonder why people of my generation are skeptical of the "mainstream media"!
Thank goodness for that. We don't need more condescending, stubborn, ineffective, vainglorious leaders like this one. He operated in an obstructed fashion for two years and all he accomplished was to insult everyone who wasn't a Democrat and sign an abomination of a "health care" law that takes the wealth and freedom of the people and gives it to insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Oh, and kill a bunch of people with drones.
Most Americans don't know who Guy Fawkes was or what he did. Just sayin'...
He's not a liberal. A liberal would not force people to buy products from companies, or force private companies to pay employees more than their labor is worth, or make most effective firearms illegal, or hand out billions to corny corporations. That's called a "progressive."
Insightful? In 1980, the top rate was 70%. It dropped to 50%, then 38.5 (already less than the current Dems want), then 28%. And the inexorable Slashdot race to the bottom continues...
You're correct; the value of that governance goes up, because you have more to protect. That's why a PROPORTIONAL tax of x% from everyone, which GOES UP AS YOU EARN MORE, is the only "fair" system.
On the bright side, you can upgrade to business class. It removes those restrictions, comes with two static IP addresses, and you get a LOS guarantee. It's not very expensive, as long as you make sure they keep your cable TV on a separate residential bill. Their business VOIP is ridiculously expensive, though-- go with VOIPo or Vonage if you want that.
Even he probably isn't. I doubt he included the delivery charge. He may live in an area where you can choose an electricity provider different from the company that maintains the lines, which means the costs are split out on the bill. That being said, he probably is saving just a little money hosting at home-- but a lot less than indicated.
You have me beat. I ebayed my DEC 3000s years ago (one of them was the awesome 600S) when I finally got a "new" DS10L, which is still running my web site. It was really annoying how the feet on the 3000 would melt under the heat and smear grey goo everywhere.
A consumer NAS that can handle 9 TB of storage costs $1,400.
Yes we are, but we also have systems like you describe.