The rest of this story will no doubt be filled with hand wringing posts over the amount of CO2 that cattle produce (something never attributed to Wildebeest herds), and how this will save the earth. The whole concept creates an intellectual conundrum for the Peta crowd. They would love to get animals off the farm, and this method presents a way forward, but having to embrace those huge corporations, and bio-engineering is probably more than they could stomach.
It's not the CO2 they make when breathing, it's the CH4 (aka methane) produced from their digestion. Methane is WAY better at trapping heat than CO2.
These state-sponsored monopolies have gone on long enough. If the 'private market' market will not meet the demand, what else are people supposed to do? Just deal with shit-tier internet at exorbitant prices? Bullshit on that...the major ISPs are no worse than the MAFIAA or the Cartels.
My older brother used to run an ISP in Monticello, and was doing quite well until TDS got the FCC to allow them to raise their tariffs. They squeezed him out of business by quadrupling the price for an T1.
"What is life?" he said at last. "I'll tell you. Life is a great grim grayness, and it inflicts fright and pain and loneliness upon all who experience it. And you want to know how to destroy it? Well, I don't think you can. But I'll tell you the best way to fight life—with laughter. As long as we can fight it that way, it can't overcome us."
Does anyone still subscribe to Time? I thought it had become another vanity publishing rag like Newsweek, with a few thousand copies made each month just for the ego of the publishers and the few doctors offices who hadn't bothered to cancel their subscriptions.
I do currently, but am going to let it lapse once the subscription runs out (got a full 52 week sub for $10). Nothing in there that I haven't already seen on the intarwebs.
Unfortunately, that's the way most laws are these days. Just look at the PATRIOT ACT. You think they came up with the name and the acronym just happened to be those two words?
50 years ago, they never did BS like this in lawmaking. Not saying there was no BS in lawmaking, but this acronym stuff is way over the top.
The name is actually the USA PATRIOT Act (what's better than a patriotic word? TWO of them!).
From what I'm seeing it's the Republicans that are going to suffer the wrath of We The People for this failure. The sooner the stubborn idiots that are unwilling to compromise are removed from office the better.
Seeing the Department of War budget cut automatically makes me a little less disgusted with our Congress. Seeing the Bush tax cuts expire gives me the warm fuzzies. I shouldn't get too pleased, they will somehow save both from the automatic budget axe...
The Republicans just spent 30 years gutting the fuck out of NASA as well as every other government program not designed to throw bullets and guns at brown people.
Hmm... Perhaps after there are some brown people living on the Moon or Mars...
We insist upon spending gobs and gobs of cash on stupid shit, and when we find we don't have enough to pay for it we lean on the people who don't have much to begin with, while simultaneously spending more of that non-existent cash by giving it to people who already have a lot of it. Makes perfect sense to me.
Yes, sanitation and medical knowledge has made great leaps in effectiveness, but we have also greatly expanded on how far and fast we can spread disease due to advances in transportation. Other than that I pretty much agree with elrous0.
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The rest of this story will no doubt be filled with hand wringing posts over the amount of CO2 that cattle produce (something never attributed to Wildebeest herds), and how this will save the earth. The whole concept creates an intellectual conundrum for the Peta crowd. They would love to get animals off the farm, and this method presents a way forward, but having to embrace those huge corporations, and bio-engineering is probably more than they could stomach.
It's not the CO2 they make when breathing, it's the CH4 (aka methane) produced from their digestion. Methane is WAY better at trapping heat than CO2.
AKA the Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik AKA the Soviet Union.
(CCCP is the acronym for the Cyrillic spelling. My attempt to copy/paste that failed)
Now get the hell off of it's lawn!
I agree with the Tea Party position here. What's next? Pigs flying? Snowballs in hell?
AKA "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
Go ask the people of Wilson, North Carolina how well private interests provided high speed to them.
Then ask the people of Monticello, Minnesota
These state-sponsored monopolies have gone on long enough. If the 'private market' market will not meet the demand, what else are people supposed to do? Just deal with shit-tier internet at exorbitant prices? Bullshit on that...the major ISPs are no worse than the MAFIAA or the Cartels.
My older brother used to run an ISP in Monticello, and was doing quite well until TDS got the FCC to allow them to raise their tariffs. They squeezed him out of business by quadrupling the price for an T1.
"What is life?" he said at last. "I'll tell you. Life is a great grim grayness, and it inflicts fright and pain and loneliness upon all who experience it. And you want to know how to destroy it? Well, I don't think you can. But I'll tell you the best way to fight life—with laughter. As long as we can fight it that way, it can't overcome us."
It's time for pitchforks and torches at the USPTO...
Does anyone still subscribe to Time? I thought it had become another vanity publishing rag like Newsweek, with a few thousand copies made each month just for the ego of the publishers and the few doctors offices who hadn't bothered to cancel their subscriptions.
I do currently, but am going to let it lapse once the subscription runs out (got a full 52 week sub for $10). Nothing in there that I haven't already seen on the intarwebs.
Unfortunately, that's the way most laws are these days. Just look at the PATRIOT ACT. You think they came up with the name and the acronym just happened to be those two words?
50 years ago, they never did BS like this in lawmaking. Not saying there was no BS in lawmaking, but this acronym stuff is way over the top.
The name is actually the USA PATRIOT Act (what's better than a patriotic word? TWO of them!).
From what I'm seeing it's the Republicans that are going to suffer the wrath of We The People for this failure. The sooner the stubborn idiots that are unwilling to compromise are removed from office the better.
Seeing the Department of War budget cut automatically makes me a little less disgusted with our Congress. Seeing the Bush tax cuts expire gives me the warm fuzzies. I shouldn't get too pleased, they will somehow save both from the automatic budget axe...
Fuck productivity. Gaming is for having fun, and is only wasted time if you are some kind of workaholic freak.
No, but there are always opportunities to earn one.
And when all the jobs are done by machines, how are you going to earn that dollar?
Good to know what brand of phone to keep buying.
Legalized extortion is what this is. Patent reform is needed, and needed sooner rather than later.
Hmm... Perhaps after there are some brown people living on the Moon or Mars...
They'll be there long before we go back...
You need to hand yours in as well... the technobabble you are thinking of is the chroniton particle.
I love how the conservatives trot out "class warfare". The non-wealthy must suck at it, because they aren't winning (and haven't been for centuries).
We insist upon spending gobs and gobs of cash on stupid shit, and when we find we don't have enough to pay for it we lean on the people who don't have much to begin with, while simultaneously spending more of that non-existent cash by giving it to people who already have a lot of it. Makes perfect sense to me.
So just because the Chinese shit where they sleep we should do the same?
Forgot to add:
Yes, sanitation and medical knowledge has made great leaps in effectiveness, but we have also greatly expanded on how far and fast we can spread disease due to advances in transportation. Other than that I pretty much agree with elrous0.
All this "This latest pandemic is going to kill us ALL!!" Chicken Little shit gets tiresome.
Firestone's Law of Forecasting: Chicken Little only has to right once.
Yes, we should stop freaking out everytime someone gets a sniffle, but at the same time let's not treat it as a "boy who cried wolf" situation either.
If I can disable the damned ribbon and use what I want, fine. I get the feeling that it won't happen.
No advantages and a few disadvantages to Win8, and I haven't even looked at it closely. I'll stay with 7 for the time being.
Nut jobs get upset about Pb going up.
Lead? I doubt it. I think you mean Pu (plutonium).
Yes, but how long can you keep that up? The guy in the suit would be exerting less effort than you, and thus be able to do it for much longer.