We would let the parrot out the cage and it loved to perch on the back of a couch with a wooden frame. The cat would slowly creep inch by inch up on the bird from behind. She almost got the bird the first time this happened. After the first time the bird would give no indication that it had any clue what was going on until the cat was just about to swipe with its paw.
Then splat, the bird would shit on the cat and even though it couldn't fly it could manage to flap to the back of another couch in the same room after delivering its payload.
Really? Parrots dance all the time, any parrot owner could tell you this. They not only dance but they sing and I don't mean the words to the song either. They will get very excited if they like the music and make all sorts of racket to the beat.
Yeah but at least here in the US electrical usage and infrared detectors aren't actually proof of anything or even enough to get a warrant to search and look for proof. They just let the law enforcement know who to look at more closely.
Exactly. This is why I am opposed to the california tax plan. It isn't that marijuana shouldn't be legal and taxed (as in sales tax and income tax the same as any other good, not a separate tax) its that the taxes they want to impose are ridiculous and largely based on current police exaggerations of black market prices.
Marijuana is only as expensive as it is because it is illegal. It's actually a pretty hardy and easy to grow plant under the light of the sun. Inside growers might get 100w per square foot, they need fans and air conditioners for climate control and carbon dioxide to supplement and expensive nutrients. Outside you have a free 2000w per square foot grow light and need a pile of shit and a hose. In cali they wanted to tax the grower for the plant and the buyer. The $100 per plant they wanted is more than the retail price of a plants output if legalized!
I don't see why it should be illegal to sell or use marijuana. It is a fairly harmless substance and is safer than most things found in the herbal supplement isle or on the shelves of GNC. It is certainly safer than anything on the over the counter medication shelf.
However, if you are going to make personal growing legal it shouldn't be based on the number of plants. The most sensible way to grow enough marijuana for personal use (about an ounce of bud per month per person) is to keep one mother plant that you take cuttings from and grow many smaller plants rather than a few big ones. Also you would have some plants in the flowering stage which requires 12light/12dark light cycle and another set going at the same time on vegatative light cycle. In a cabinet the size of a wardrobe you might have as many as 20-40 plants that will yield only enough to keep one person in smoke. You will need more if you want to people to be able to eat or vaporize instead of smoking.
'The average grower is not looking to increase addictive properties.'
Marijuana doesn't have addictive properties to increase. You would actually have to add a foreign substance to it in order to make it addictive.
'I'd prefer potatoes to be illegal so that I can buy them on the black market tax free.'
Yeah for a 3000x markup. That's the big problem with the cali legalization and taxation plan, it uses the bogus law enforcement valuation numbers as a base. What was it, 100 per plant to grow... grown on large scale in a legalized society the output of a single plant would be than a fifth of that, let alone the tax.
It wasn't to help kids prepare for disaster, it was to help kids who had already experienced the disaster to cope.
They pulled it for the wrong reason, government agencies shouldn't act/not act for PR purposes but they should have pulled it anyway. 9/11 was a long time ago and kids who experienced it are shaving now, not coloring.
That's great but nobody who experienced anything traumatic in 9/11 is still of coloring book age so it doesn't much matter at this point. The best reason to take it down now is that it is irrelevant.
For that matter its been almost a decade, move on from 9/11 for god sake. Yeah it was sad, so were lots of things that happened to people a long time ago. Document them, learn the lessons to be learned. But don't still be sensitive and whining 10 years later.
Yes but there is a mechanism for that and its not people whine loudly and government org caves. FEMA doesn't answer to the people directly, it answers to a chain of command that ultimately leads to the president. The president in turn answers to the people (at least in theory).
If its an automated print system the quality of print job and binding is going to be on par with what you'd get by having staples print you up a copy of your public domain book. Especially if you printed it out on your laser printer and just brought it to them for binding.
I did this with about 10 advanced dungeons and dragons 1st edition manuals. They are great.
'is anybody ever that desperate to get a fiction book that may take weeks'
I think you have that backwards. I don't know when a manual or text book couldn't wait another day (except maybe a special circumstance like a late class switch in college) but the good fiction books I pre-order from whoever lets the book slip first upon release. The release of the Last Harry Potter book resulted in actual beatings and the stores were guarded by police anticipating problems.
I don't know about others but a GOOD fictional work has to be finished. I don't let them sit unread for weeks, at least not after I've breached the cover. Once I've breached the cover I don't do anything but work/eat/sleep/read until the book is finished. It's like watching half a movie, it drives me insane.
I'm not sure I entirely agree. At least not anytime soon. I use plenty of digital books and materials but they aren't a total substitute for a printed book that i can carry, abuse, flip through pages, and don't strain my eyes nearly so much.
This will relegate the bookstore to the status of the stupid $0.25 bucking horse ride in the mall square... err maybe those are $1 these days. In any case, I'm not saying it isn't a good thing but this has the potential to crush both the independents and Barnes and Noble. Who wants to deal with lines and people when you can get anything you want out of a vending machine?
'but now imagine you have to run a few of those buildings, and of course all the physical plant that connects them together and the COs to the houses?'
A few of those buildings is just a question of scale, they need a few because they have a metric butt ton of customers and therefore a metric butt ton of cash coming in, probably more return for gb after all costs are settled than a web host. As for the rest of the infrastructure to the houses etc, that is part of the expense of providing CABLE or TELEPHONE service, they don't get to charge extra for those costs twice over!
First of all, that sort of crooked accounting is tax evasion and is illegal. If the IRS ever gets annoyed with them they will come in with the bean counters, flashlights, and ass spreaders. They will proceed to conduct exploratory anal surgery until they find the goddamn money. At that point, it doesn't matter if you were following tax code or not because the IRS writes the tax code and most of the loopholes can be closed if the IRS decides you were jumping through them to intentionally avoid paying taxes.
'mention the sponsors by name with a simple statement of slogan or mission.'
That's an ad. That's like saying google doesn't have ads because there are no images or flash and just text.
It isn't really a commercial vs non-commercial issue its a profit vs non-profit issue. This is one of the greater annoyances of amateur radio legislation in the US as well, they don't allow commercial uses, even when no profit is made and funds are simply to cover expenses.
'First off, the words "propaganda" and "lies" are not interchangeable.'
Actually they are, presenting facts via selective bias is lying just as surely as presenting outright lies. It is no different than a partial quote or quote out of context that conveys a message that is different than reality.
For example, the US propoganda of the russian military is that after the 'collapse' anyone can easily buy nukes for 10-50k from the corrupt, evil, and incompetent russian military. Yet, oddly enough, apparently nobody has taken advantage of this because there are precisely ZERO new russian armed nuclear powers. No sold technology, no sold bombs, nada, zip, zilch, zero. There are small arms but I think you will find the U.S. military illegally traded as many if not more arms both during and after the cold war. In fact, by all credible accounts the U.S. military/government is the largest legal and illegal arms dealer in the world.
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In fact I bet it curbs just about every form of actual activity.
We would let the parrot out the cage and it loved to perch on the back of a couch with a wooden frame. The cat would slowly creep inch by inch up on the bird from behind. She almost got the bird the first time this happened. After the first time the bird would give no indication that it had any clue what was going on until the cat was just about to swipe with its paw.
Then splat, the bird would shit on the cat and even though it couldn't fly it could manage to flap to the back of another couch in the same room after delivering its payload.
Really? Parrots dance all the time, any parrot owner could tell you this. They not only dance but they sing and I don't mean the words to the song either. They will get very excited if they like the music and make all sorts of racket to the beat.
Yeah but at least here in the US electrical usage and infrared detectors aren't actually proof of anything or even enough to get a warrant to search and look for proof. They just let the law enforcement know who to look at more closely.
Exactly. This is why I am opposed to the california tax plan. It isn't that marijuana shouldn't be legal and taxed (as in sales tax and income tax the same as any other good, not a separate tax) its that the taxes they want to impose are ridiculous and largely based on current police exaggerations of black market prices.
Marijuana is only as expensive as it is because it is illegal. It's actually a pretty hardy and easy to grow plant under the light of the sun. Inside growers might get 100w per square foot, they need fans and air conditioners for climate control and carbon dioxide to supplement and expensive nutrients. Outside you have a free 2000w per square foot grow light and need a pile of shit and a hose. In cali they wanted to tax the grower for the plant and the buyer. The $100 per plant they wanted is more than the retail price of a plants output if legalized!
But where exactly is the weed for coffeeshops and personal use supposed to come from?
I don't see why it should be illegal to sell or use marijuana. It is a fairly harmless substance and is safer than most things found in the herbal supplement isle or on the shelves of GNC. It is certainly safer than anything on the over the counter medication shelf.
However, if you are going to make personal growing legal it shouldn't be based on the number of plants. The most sensible way to grow enough marijuana for personal use (about an ounce of bud per month per person) is to keep one mother plant that you take cuttings from and grow many smaller plants rather than a few big ones. Also you would have some plants in the flowering stage which requires 12light/12dark light cycle and another set going at the same time on vegatative light cycle. In a cabinet the size of a wardrobe you might have as many as 20-40 plants that will yield only enough to keep one person in smoke. You will need more if you want to people to be able to eat or vaporize instead of smoking.
'The average grower is not looking to increase addictive properties.'
Marijuana doesn't have addictive properties to increase. You would actually have to add a foreign substance to it in order to make it addictive.
'I'd prefer potatoes to be illegal so that I can buy them on the black market tax free.'
Yeah for a 3000x markup. That's the big problem with the cali legalization and taxation plan, it uses the bogus law enforcement valuation numbers as a base. What was it, 100 per plant to grow... grown on large scale in a legalized society the output of a single plant would be than a fifth of that, let alone the tax.
It wasn't to help kids prepare for disaster, it was to help kids who had already experienced the disaster to cope.
They pulled it for the wrong reason, government agencies shouldn't act/not act for PR purposes but they should have pulled it anyway. 9/11 was a long time ago and kids who experienced it are shaving now, not coloring.
That's great but nobody who experienced anything traumatic in 9/11 is still of coloring book age so it doesn't much matter at this point. The best reason to take it down now is that it is irrelevant.
For that matter its been almost a decade, move on from 9/11 for god sake. Yeah it was sad, so were lots of things that happened to people a long time ago. Document them, learn the lessons to be learned. But don't still be sensitive and whining 10 years later.
Yes but there is a mechanism for that and its not people whine loudly and government org caves. FEMA doesn't answer to the people directly, it answers to a chain of command that ultimately leads to the president. The president in turn answers to the people (at least in theory).
Agreed. So does anyone have a link to download this coloring book?
If its an automated print system the quality of print job and binding is going to be on par with what you'd get by having staples print you up a copy of your public domain book. Especially if you printed it out on your laser printer and just brought it to them for binding.
I did this with about 10 advanced dungeons and dragons 1st edition manuals. They are great.
'If publisher provided print-ready PDFs - that is another story. But again - they would only have those for the books still in print.'
Today. But next year you'd already have the pdfs from the books that went out last year.
As for bringing your own pdf's, you can do that already. Just go to staples, they will print and bind anything you want.
$55 is too much for ANY book. Unless its for a rare collectors copy or some such.
'is anybody ever that desperate to get a fiction book that may take weeks'
I think you have that backwards. I don't know when a manual or text book couldn't wait another day (except maybe a special circumstance like a late class switch in college) but the good fiction books I pre-order from whoever lets the book slip first upon release. The release of the Last Harry Potter book resulted in actual beatings and the stores were guarded by police anticipating problems.
I don't know about others but a GOOD fictional work has to be finished. I don't let them sit unread for weeks, at least not after I've breached the cover. Once I've breached the cover I don't do anything but work/eat/sleep/read until the book is finished. It's like watching half a movie, it drives me insane.
I'm not sure I entirely agree. At least not anytime soon. I use plenty of digital books and materials but they aren't a total substitute for a printed book that i can carry, abuse, flip through pages, and don't strain my eyes nearly so much.
Besides, printed books smell good.
This will relegate the bookstore to the status of the stupid $0.25 bucking horse ride in the mall square... err maybe those are $1 these days. In any case, I'm not saying it isn't a good thing but this has the potential to crush both the independents and Barnes and Noble. Who wants to deal with lines and people when you can get anything you want out of a vending machine?
'but now imagine you have to run a few of those buildings, and of course all the physical plant that connects them together and the COs to the houses?'
A few of those buildings is just a question of scale, they need a few because they have a metric butt ton of customers and therefore a metric butt ton of cash coming in, probably more return for gb after all costs are settled than a web host. As for the rest of the infrastructure to the houses etc, that is part of the expense of providing CABLE or TELEPHONE service, they don't get to charge extra for those costs twice over!
First of all, that sort of crooked accounting is tax evasion and is illegal. If the IRS ever gets annoyed with them they will come in with the bean counters, flashlights, and ass spreaders. They will proceed to conduct exploratory anal surgery until they find the goddamn money. At that point, it doesn't matter if you were following tax code or not because the IRS writes the tax code and most of the loopholes can be closed if the IRS decides you were jumping through them to intentionally avoid paying taxes.
'mention the sponsors by name with a simple statement of slogan or mission.'
That's an ad. That's like saying google doesn't have ads because there are no images or flash and just text.
It isn't really a commercial vs non-commercial issue its a profit vs non-profit issue. This is one of the greater annoyances of amateur radio legislation in the US as well, they don't allow commercial uses, even when no profit is made and funds are simply to cover expenses.
'First off, the words "propaganda" and "lies" are not interchangeable.'
Actually they are, presenting facts via selective bias is lying just as surely as presenting outright lies. It is no different than a partial quote or quote out of context that conveys a message that is different than reality.
For example, the US propoganda of the russian military is that after the 'collapse' anyone can easily buy nukes for 10-50k from the corrupt, evil, and incompetent russian military. Yet, oddly enough, apparently nobody has taken advantage of this because there are precisely ZERO new russian armed nuclear powers. No sold technology, no sold bombs, nada, zip, zilch, zero. There are small arms but I think you will find the U.S. military illegally traded as many if not more arms both during and after the cold war. In fact, by all credible accounts the U.S. military/government is the largest legal and illegal arms dealer in the world.
Why is defending the russian military flamebait and insulting them +5 insightful?
Buying into US propoganda much?
Why single out the catholics? Pretty much every church/religion has made its money off fearmongering.
'When you get unlimited refills, always buy the smallest cup.'
Unless a refill would require you to get up during the movie.