Most Christians reside in a country or countries that have a very powerful, stable and dependable government and/or justice system. Ergo, places where Christian extremism will get you the death penalty and/or thrown in jail for the rest of your natural life. This has generally been the case since the "holy" church was given the boot and government took over regulation of the masses.
You will find that this also holds for nations that are Muslim in majority-or by law-and also have a strong government. For example, you don't see this happening in Saudi Arabia or Iran.
Yet take any nation or region that lacks a strong government, and it doesn't matter what religion you are, you will have atrocities being committed. Which is why we see roving mobs of Christians murdering people in various African nations.
My neighbor, who we'll call "Dave", got what looked like a brand-new, ink-jet photo printer at the thrift shop. It was flawless externally, and it printed everything...except the color yellow. As you can imagine, yellow is pretty darn important, so they weren't happy.
After a little research, he determined that the cause of the problem was the ink itself. This was a mid-range printer, and the ink used clay as a base. If you don't use the printer at least once a week, the clay settles out in the intakes and clogs it up tight. The message boards were chock-a-block full of people with the same problem.
Dave learned from the boards that the company just takes the returned printers and swaps out the intake nozzle, then sells them on as "factory reconditioned". It was easy for the manufacturer, but not the consumer.
So Dave bought the exact same make and model at BestBuy, then swapped out the packaging for the defective unit. A few days later, he brought it back to the store, along with some of the photos that were missing the yellow ink. They got a refund on their credit card, rather than cash, and that was that.
So, as you can see, there is a reason why this is being done? But also, as you can see, there's no way to really stop it from happening.
Found only two matches: National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and the US Chamber of Commerce. There were a few matches on the opposing side, but not many.
Now we know who the real players are in the game of controlling the government.
Fondant icing is corn syrup, gelatin/agar, and vegetable shortening, which is yet another garbage product we're feeding to bees. "Traveling" hives that you see getting trucked from place to place have small cakes of sweetened shortening placed inside the hives to help 'tide them over' as they're transported. They also add antibiotics to control disease, and the shortening helps to smother tracheal mites.
They probably would not need antibiotics, or help with tracheal mites, if they weren't being trucked around like slaves.
Ooooh, ouch. I'm sorry, losing a hive is terrible. A friend of my dad's used to cry for days if he lost a hive, but those were the "good old days".
Putting in a new colony is an exceptional event, and supplemental feeding is most certainly understandable. It takes time to get a colony firmly and safely established.
It is generally accepted that a healthy, well-established hive will require approximately 60lbs of honey to survive a typical "northern" winter. Some of the permaculture-minded documentation suggests that a keeper should go even further, and refrain from harvesting during the summer or fall, and wait until the spring when new flowers are coming out. That way, they can be absolutely certain that whatever honey is left over is truly "surplus".
But that's not what we're doing.
I would actually go so far as to suggest that "mobile hives", the ones that are freighted across the country from field to grove to field, shouldn't have *any* honey harvested from them at all. That way, they would have the very best food available to them when they arrive, as they work, and when they're in transport.
Heh. You might have guessed, but I don't see bees as "workers", but partners.
Okay, so we've learned that HFCS that is derived from corn treated with a pesticide is responsible for causing CCD. And from the articles, it appears that bees that aren't fed HFCS (laced or not) don't seem to be collecting enough of the pesticide via their natural habits.
Great! Great news. Yay! Whoo-hoo, and all that jazz.
So why are we feeding the bees HFCS or sugar water?
A former beekeeper pointed out that they're fed HFCS and sugar water in late winter when the hives run out of honey. (In case you didn't know, bees don't make honey just for human benefit. It's supposed to be their food.)
So the next logical question would be, "Why are they running out of honey in late winter?"
Answer: Keepers are taking too much.
So! CCD isn't necessarily caused by a pesticide, it's caused by HUMAN GREED when idiot bee keepers harvest too much honey for a quick profit, and then try to keep their bees limping along on garbage. If they weren't stealing the winter food supply, and restrained themselves to taking only the summer surplus, then CCD would most likely never have happened. (Using sugar water USED to be a last-gasp, keeper-has-shit-the-bed-and-has-to-fix-it method of helping your bees survive your lack of proper planning? But now it's become canon.)
Once again, the cause of the problem is human greed and stupidity.
I looked at the response for Cary, NC? Sweet little dodge in there...
Several records that might arguably be responsive to your request are copyrighted materials. They are Arrest, Search and Investigation in North Carolina and Cell Phone Technology for Criminal investigations.
The Town is unable to make copies of copyrighted materials. You may inspect these copyrighted records in the Cary Police Department during normal business hours. Please call (919)469-4017 to schedule a date and time for such inspection. You may also purchase Arrest, Search and Investigation in North Carolina at the following address: http://shopping.netsuitecom/s.nl/c.433425/sc.7/.f.
Finally, there may be records of criminal investigation(s) or of criminal intelligence information that relate to cell phone location records. Under the public records law to cell phone location records. records of criminal investigations and records of criminal intelligence information compiled by the Cary Police Department are not public records. We have conducted no search of criminal investigations or criminal intelligence information records.
(Emphasis in bold is mine)
Very nice. You can purchase the records, or you can come and view them in person. Just for S&G, I tried to follow that URL, but it doesn't seem to work.
I will note that some people really are willing to show up at the county court house, pay the fee, and sit there for a few hours while the clerk makes the requested copies. Likewise, said folks usually have the document scanner warmed up and waiting at the local Kinko's, ready to load those copyrighted records into easily distributed.pdf format, and DGAF about copyright claims.
And the Beast causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
What an interesting way to give someone a "mark" in their right hand, though most people don't hold their phone to their foreheads. And what a coincidental bunch of stories about Sweden looking into giving up cash.
I left Paypal about six months ago. I'd never been screwed over by them, but I saw so many other people getting screwed, that I felt why leave myself open like that? Because I have used Paypal to purchase porn in the past.
Leaving and cancelling my account was almost alarmingly easy. Just delete a few things, clean up the history, then click on the "delete account" button. *bink* Done.
No blubbery emails, no phone calls, no nuthin, just a "Thanks" and a slamming door. And I had a merchant account from selling stuff on eBay, too.
I think this is one of those cases where Paypal is making so much money, they honestly don't need to give a shit.
We had completely autonomous drones 40 years ago? Ones that could roll out from shore, make their way to a target, acquire the target, do the deed, release the target, swim home and deliver the intel?
When I was in the Navy, on Oahu, a friend of mine was a research assistant and professor at University of Hawai'i on Oahu. They were doing research on the Hawaiian Monk Seal, and had to attach fake rocks with electronic gear to the reef.
They were working in 300 feet of water, which is extremely deep for SCUBA, and highly dangerous even with mixed gasses. Bottom time is around 15 minutes, and deco times are in hours. Because of this, they needed to be near a decompression chamber in case of an emergency, but the closest one at the time was on Maui.
However, the Navy Seals out of Pearl have a portable deco chamber, so UH approached the Navy about teaming the Seals with the UH dive team. It was a match made in technical heaven: the Seals got dive time, which is always at a premium, and the UH team got expert dive buddies and a portable deco chamber on their ship, the Moana Wave.
They were out like this for over a week, and everyone got pretty friendly. Things were working perfectly, no issues, on schedule, everyone happy. On one of the dives, they got to the bottom just outside of the entrance to Pearl Harbor, and were making their way to the work site. There in the sandy bottom, was a set of tracks.
Just like you would see laid down by a bulldozer or tank.
They were about 5' apart and around 6" wide, and went from deep to shallow, following the slope. They didn't have time to ponder it for long, since they only had less than 15 minutes to do the work. They kept going and came across another set of tracks, this set even wider, and the tracks likewise even wider. Again, no time to gawk, so they went on.
After a long deco stop near the surface, everyone was dead tired. Each diver needs the help of two people just to take off the tanks (they were wearing 6 tanks), so everyone is sitting on the benches, just chatting. One of the UH divers mentions the tank tracks on the bottom, and how neat they were.
One of the Seals chimes in, "Yeah, that's a new one! I didn't think we had one tha-" And suddenly remembers where he is, and who he's talking with, and clams up.
That was 1998. Technology has only advanced since then.
Hanlon's Razor is only sharp until the next bit of data comes along.
I don't think he's an excellent candidate simply because of his age. I think he's morally bankrupt and personally repugnant, but that's merely my own personal opinion.
Society and it's views on fitness are another matter, and the people simply won't elect someone they see as an old man.
From a purely scientific point of view, one need only look at the pictures of ANY US president before they took the oath of office, then after 4 years. Kennedy aged 20 years during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan left office a much weaker man. Heck, even Pres. Obama looks 10 years older, and now has gray hair.
The office of the president is not a job for anyone over the age of 65. I don't care how many miles you can pedal on a bike, or how many marathons you can run; the human body is not invincible.
As to your hopes to my position of hiring people, as a voter, I AM in that position, and I just said "NO WAY" to Ron Paul.
It is rumored that if Santorum actually gets the nomination, the GOP will draft Gov. Christie of NJ for the Republican candidate. But he's one cannoli short of a heart attack, so not many will vote for him. Nobody wants Romney, either, because of Romneycare and the whole Mormon thing. And Paul, as much as he may appeal to some people, is one fall away from a hip replacement.
So here's an interesting fact? Jeb Bush and his father showed up at the Whitehouse back on the 27th of January for a long talk. (Oh, to have been a fly on THAT wall.) The other interesting thing is that Jeb's wife, Columba, has made it neuteringly clear that he's not available until 2016.
So! 3 completely unelectable candidates so far as the GOP is concerned. The party favorite-which is why they're sometimes known as the "Waiting For Jeb" party-isn't available either.
I'm going to guess that the "fix" is in, and Obama is going to be president for another term. Then after that, we'll have another Bush in the Whitehouse. So everything that's happening in this "election" is just a dog & pony show, just as it's always been.
1. Go to 10minutemail. 2. Get email address. 3. Sign up with torrent site and give them the email address. 4. Check 10minutemail in 30 seconds. 5. Complete registration on torrent site.
Done.
Note: don't lose your password, or you'll have to make another account.
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...was Athlete's Foot.
The high-pressure, high-humidity atmosphere of the lab caused the fungi to spread like wildfire, to the point where it would spread to the entire body, and even cause a secondary bacterial infection with alarming ease.
Slashdot Mirror
FTA: "I'm afraid to pee..."
I laughed so hard when I read that, I don't have to pee anymore.
That's easy to answer.
Most Christians reside in a country or countries that have a very powerful, stable and dependable government and/or justice system. Ergo, places where Christian extremism will get you the death penalty and/or thrown in jail for the rest of your natural life. This has generally been the case since the "holy" church was given the boot and government took over regulation of the masses.
You will find that this also holds for nations that are Muslim in majority-or by law-and also have a strong government. For example, you don't see this happening in Saudi Arabia or Iran.
Yet take any nation or region that lacks a strong government, and it doesn't matter what religion you are, you will have atrocities being committed. Which is why we see roving mobs of Christians murdering people in various African nations.
We may never know.
Yes.
My neighbor, who we'll call "Dave", got what looked like a brand-new, ink-jet photo printer at the thrift shop. It was flawless externally, and it printed everything...except the color yellow. As you can imagine, yellow is pretty darn important, so they weren't happy.
After a little research, he determined that the cause of the problem was the ink itself. This was a mid-range printer, and the ink used clay as a base. If you don't use the printer at least once a week, the clay settles out in the intakes and clogs it up tight. The message boards were chock-a-block full of people with the same problem.
Dave learned from the boards that the company just takes the returned printers and swaps out the intake nozzle, then sells them on as "factory reconditioned". It was easy for the manufacturer, but not the consumer.
So Dave bought the exact same make and model at BestBuy, then swapped out the packaging for the defective unit. A few days later, he brought it back to the store, along with some of the photos that were missing the yellow ink. They got a refund on their credit card, rather than cash, and that was that.
So, as you can see, there is a reason why this is being done? But also, as you can see, there's no way to really stop it from happening.
That list is very, very short.
Compare it to the list of interests that supported SOPA.
Found only two matches: National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and the US Chamber of Commerce. There were a few matches on the opposing side, but not many.
Now we know who the real players are in the game of controlling the government.
Fondant icing is corn syrup, gelatin/agar, and vegetable shortening, which is yet another garbage product we're feeding to bees. "Traveling" hives that you see getting trucked from place to place have small cakes of sweetened shortening placed inside the hives to help 'tide them over' as they're transported. They also add antibiotics to control disease, and the shortening helps to smother tracheal mites.
They probably would not need antibiotics, or help with tracheal mites, if they weren't being trucked around like slaves.
Ooooh, ouch. I'm sorry, losing a hive is terrible. A friend of my dad's used to cry for days if he lost a hive, but those were the "good old days".
Putting in a new colony is an exceptional event, and supplemental feeding is most certainly understandable. It takes time to get a colony firmly and safely established.
It is generally accepted that a healthy, well-established hive will require approximately 60lbs of honey to survive a typical "northern" winter. Some of the permaculture-minded documentation suggests that a keeper should go even further, and refrain from harvesting during the summer or fall, and wait until the spring when new flowers are coming out. That way, they can be absolutely certain that whatever honey is left over is truly "surplus".
But that's not what we're doing.
I would actually go so far as to suggest that "mobile hives", the ones that are freighted across the country from field to grove to field, shouldn't have *any* honey harvested from them at all. That way, they would have the very best food available to them when they arrive, as they work, and when they're in transport.
Heh. You might have guessed, but I don't see bees as "workers", but partners.
Okay, so we've learned that HFCS that is derived from corn treated with a pesticide is responsible for causing CCD. And from the articles, it appears that bees that aren't fed HFCS (laced or not) don't seem to be collecting enough of the pesticide via their natural habits.
Great! Great news. Yay! Whoo-hoo, and all that jazz.
So why are we feeding the bees HFCS or sugar water?
A former beekeeper pointed out that they're fed HFCS and sugar water in late winter when the hives run out of honey. (In case you didn't know, bees don't make honey just for human benefit. It's supposed to be their food.)
So the next logical question would be, "Why are they running out of honey in late winter?"
Answer: Keepers are taking too much.
So! CCD isn't necessarily caused by a pesticide, it's caused by HUMAN GREED when idiot bee keepers harvest too much honey for a quick profit, and then try to keep their bees limping along on garbage. If they weren't stealing the winter food supply, and restrained themselves to taking only the summer surplus, then CCD would most likely never have happened. (Using sugar water USED to be a last-gasp, keeper-has-shit-the-bed-and-has-to-fix-it method of helping your bees survive your lack of proper planning? But now it's become canon.)
Once again, the cause of the problem is human greed and stupidity.
According to the article, it took more than a month for the bees to show the CCD effects when they were fed trace amounts.
Also, if the hives are running out of honey in late winter, then the keeper is taking too much honey.
what biochemical mechanism is in place that makes imidacloprid dangerous to bees...
It is an insecticide.
That's usually dangerous to insects.
Oh, how nice.
1 case of search & rescue in Eugene, Wa, where some mushroom hunter gets a free ride home.
Meanwhile, there are a couple thousand cases of abuse per day across the entire US.
I see you have your papers with you at all times, Citizen. Well done, the Computer is pleased.
I looked at the response for Cary, NC? Sweet little dodge in there...
(Emphasis in bold is mine)
Very nice. You can purchase the records, or you can come and view them in person. Just for S&G, I tried to follow that URL, but it doesn't seem to work.
I will note that some people really are willing to show up at the county court house, pay the fee, and sit there for a few hours while the clerk makes the requested copies. Likewise, said folks usually have the document scanner warmed up and waiting at the local Kinko's, ready to load those copyrighted records into easily distributed .pdf format, and DGAF about copyright claims.
Be careful with that. "My hovercraft is full of eels." isn't much of an exaggeration.
Actually, I thought it sounded like the probe from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
And the Beast causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
What an interesting way to give someone a "mark" in their right hand, though most people don't hold their phone to their foreheads. And what a coincidental bunch of stories about Sweden looking into giving up cash.
I left Paypal about six months ago. I'd never been screwed over by them, but I saw so many other people getting screwed, that I felt why leave myself open like that? Because I have used Paypal to purchase porn in the past.
Leaving and cancelling my account was almost alarmingly easy. Just delete a few things, clean up the history, then click on the "delete account" button. *bink* Done.
No blubbery emails, no phone calls, no nuthin, just a "Thanks" and a slamming door. And I had a merchant account from selling stuff on eBay, too.
I think this is one of those cases where Paypal is making so much money, they honestly don't need to give a shit.
We had completely autonomous drones 40 years ago? Ones that could roll out from shore, make their way to a target, acquire the target, do the deed, release the target, swim home and deliver the intel?
Really?
When I was in the Navy, on Oahu, a friend of mine was a research assistant and professor at University of Hawai'i on Oahu. They were doing research on the Hawaiian Monk Seal, and had to attach fake rocks with electronic gear to the reef.
They were working in 300 feet of water, which is extremely deep for SCUBA, and highly dangerous even with mixed gasses. Bottom time is around 15 minutes, and deco times are in hours. Because of this, they needed to be near a decompression chamber in case of an emergency, but the closest one at the time was on Maui.
However, the Navy Seals out of Pearl have a portable deco chamber, so UH approached the Navy about teaming the Seals with the UH dive team. It was a match made in technical heaven: the Seals got dive time, which is always at a premium, and the UH team got expert dive buddies and a portable deco chamber on their ship, the Moana Wave.
They were out like this for over a week, and everyone got pretty friendly. Things were working perfectly, no issues, on schedule, everyone happy. On one of the dives, they got to the bottom just outside of the entrance to Pearl Harbor, and were making their way to the work site. There in the sandy bottom, was a set of tracks.
Just like you would see laid down by a bulldozer or tank.
They were about 5' apart and around 6" wide, and went from deep to shallow, following the slope. They didn't have time to ponder it for long, since they only had less than 15 minutes to do the work. They kept going and came across another set of tracks, this set even wider, and the tracks likewise even wider. Again, no time to gawk, so they went on.
After a long deco stop near the surface, everyone was dead tired. Each diver needs the help of two people just to take off the tanks (they were wearing 6 tanks), so everyone is sitting on the benches, just chatting. One of the UH divers mentions the tank tracks on the bottom, and how neat they were.
One of the Seals chimes in, "Yeah, that's a new one! I didn't think we had one tha-" And suddenly remembers where he is, and who he's talking with, and clams up.
That was 1998. Technology has only advanced since then.
Hanlon's Razor is only sharp until the next bit of data comes along.
It was mentioned a while back. Ctrl-F works well in Firefox.
Crypto geeks are breathing a sigh of relief, while the CEO of Harbor Freight laughs maniacally.
I don't think he's an excellent candidate simply because of his age. I think he's morally bankrupt and personally repugnant, but that's merely my own personal opinion.
Society and it's views on fitness are another matter, and the people simply won't elect someone they see as an old man.
From a purely scientific point of view, one need only look at the pictures of ANY US president before they took the oath of office, then after 4 years. Kennedy aged 20 years during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan left office a much weaker man. Heck, even Pres. Obama looks 10 years older, and now has gray hair.
The office of the president is not a job for anyone over the age of 65. I don't care how many miles you can pedal on a bike, or how many marathons you can run; the human body is not invincible.
As to your hopes to my position of hiring people, as a voter, I AM in that position, and I just said "NO WAY" to Ron Paul.
It is rumored that if Santorum actually gets the nomination, the GOP will draft Gov. Christie of NJ for the Republican candidate. But he's one cannoli short of a heart attack, so not many will vote for him. Nobody wants Romney, either, because of Romneycare and the whole Mormon thing. And Paul, as much as he may appeal to some people, is one fall away from a hip replacement.
So here's an interesting fact? Jeb Bush and his father showed up at the Whitehouse back on the 27th of January for a long talk. (Oh, to have been a fly on THAT wall.) The other interesting thing is that Jeb's wife, Columba, has made it neuteringly clear that he's not available until 2016.
So! 3 completely unelectable candidates so far as the GOP is concerned. The party favorite-which is why they're sometimes known as the "Waiting For Jeb" party-isn't available either.
I'm going to guess that the "fix" is in, and Obama is going to be president for another term. Then after that, we'll have another Bush in the Whitehouse. So everything that's happening in this "election" is just a dog & pony show, just as it's always been.
I just scrolled down to the comments to see what kind of names they had.
Wow. No, really. Wow. That's some serious tea in those bags. We're talking Earl Grey, hot, with honey and lemon.
10minutemail.com
1. Go to 10minutemail.
2. Get email address.
3. Sign up with torrent site and give them the email address.
4. Check 10minutemail in 30 seconds.
5. Complete registration on torrent site.
Done.
Note: don't lose your password, or you'll have to make another account.
...was Athlete's Foot.
The high-pressure, high-humidity atmosphere of the lab caused the fungi to spread like wildfire, to the point where it would spread to the entire body, and even cause a secondary bacterial infection with alarming ease.