I was thinking more of crowdfunding, but whatever. If the science is actually worthwhile, shouldn't you be able to find an audience of people among the 7 billion on the planet who are wondering the same thing and are willing to throw the cost of a cup of coffee at it?
The original idea of a parish, back when only the very rich owned horses, was so that everybody could walk to church.
The original idea of a diocese is an area so that a walking Bishop is available within a week (and there used to be penalties to prevent "absentee bishops").
Unfortunately, most of those laws governing bishops disappeared about 500 years ago.....
At the current population density on a planet wide scale, and taking land lost to climate change into account, we have 20 square kilometers per human being to play with.
Some of that is much harder to live on than the rest, but you could still provide *every single human being on the planet* 2 acres of farmland and have enough left over for 1400 sq foot houses.
I have a friend who is living in a different part of the same state. He defines privacy as: If you can't piss off your front porch, the neighbors are too damn close.
Needless to day, public transportation in his little corner of the world isn't a concern and nobody is pushing for it there.
I am aware of six. Having said that, none of the six are particularly nonviolent, and one of them is so violent it is now actively illegal to go into their territory, and the last person who did so a few months ago was seen with his lifeless body being dragged around by the neck.
We can, however, go to the opposite extreme- where the pool of ownership is both mandatory and total, with no non-owners. There we find often generosity prevails, to a fault- the potlatch of the Pacific Northwest tribes, for instance.
That isn't capitalism, it's distributist ownership.
Capitalism allows rent taking, which requires that a certain portion of the population is denied the ability to play the capitalist game, is denied the ability to own.
There is fake news on both sides. And has been for a very long time. Every campaign advert you see is really fake news, every story about a politician you see even on your local nightly news is bought and paid for and produced by professional propaganda artists.
Only an idiot would even bother to think otherwise. Either that, or a wing nut.
True enough. I am proposing that there is a better way to do this terrorist attack. In fact, if I were doing it, I'd have the drones fly onto the property when the airport was closed late at night or in the early morning, and then fly up at random times to buzz the tower, crossing landing strips to do so.
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I was thinking more of crowdfunding, but whatever. If the science is actually worthwhile, shouldn't you be able to find an audience of people among the 7 billion on the planet who are wondering the same thing and are willing to throw the cost of a cup of coffee at it?
Instead of relying on taxes taken at gunpoint to prove predetermined conclusions.
The original idea of a parish, back when only the very rich owned horses, was so that everybody could walk to church.
The original idea of a diocese is an area so that a walking Bishop is available within a week (and there used to be penalties to prevent "absentee bishops").
Unfortunately, most of those laws governing bishops disappeared about 500 years ago.....
And yet rural parishes often have larger church campuses due to having the land available to build on.
At the current population density on a planet wide scale, and taking land lost to climate change into account, we have 20 square kilometers per human being to play with.
Some of that is much harder to live on than the rest, but you could still provide *every single human being on the planet* 2 acres of farmland and have enough left over for 1400 sq foot houses.
So it seems like it scales just fine to me.
Why have anybody live in a city? Why can't it just be a manufacturing center with high speed rail access to the country?
Reasonable departments of transportation have gone to GPS tax per mile schemes.
"That's what public parks are for." Only if you like dog and human shit in your public park.
And independent of the mind, having a yard is good for kids and dogs. I think you don't know what subjective means.
I have a friend who is living in a different part of the same state. He defines privacy as: If you can't piss off your front porch, the neighbors are too damn close.
Needless to day, public transportation in his little corner of the world isn't a concern and nobody is pushing for it there.
Our stupid developers keep building wider cities.
Just because Gorbachev was unable to understand market manipulation using fiat currency doesn't mean everybody is so stupid.
As indeed it is- and is not one of these "rightsizings" indeed denying capital to a certain segment of society?
I am aware of six. Having said that, none of the six are particularly nonviolent, and one of them is so violent it is now actively illegal to go into their territory, and the last person who did so a few months ago was seen with his lifeless body being dragged around by the neck.
We can, however, go to the opposite extreme- where the pool of ownership is both mandatory and total, with no non-owners. There we find often generosity prevails, to a fault- the potlatch of the Pacific Northwest tribes, for instance.
That isn't capitalism, it's distributist ownership.
Capitalism allows rent taking, which requires that a certain portion of the population is denied the ability to play the capitalist game, is denied the ability to own.
Having said that, the real end point comes when everybody is allowed to be an owner, rather than just consumers. Then who can you hire?
The only thing wrong with capitalism are too few capitalists.
-GK Chesterton
The point is well made, however, Capitalism is as much a form of social engineering as communism is.
This isn't about climate change. This is about the basic availability of clean recycled plastic.
My answer, switch to glass.
What the hell was so wrong with glass?
Paint 3D- what Microsoft did because Paint wasn't awful enough.
Paint.NET- 3rd party freeware that fixes both.
There is fake news on both sides. And has been for a very long time. Every campaign advert you see is really fake news, every story about a politician you see even on your local nightly news is bought and paid for and produced by professional propaganda artists.
Only an idiot would even bother to think otherwise. Either that, or a wing nut.
There is certainly something ironic about using an open-source encyclopedia as a source of truth in a world of fake news.
True enough. I am proposing that there is a better way to do this terrorist attack. In fact, if I were doing it, I'd have the drones fly onto the property when the airport was closed late at night or in the early morning, and then fly up at random times to buzz the tower, crossing landing strips to do so.
You don't need to. All you need to do is penetrate the perimeter, and get the attention of the tower. The tower will then shut down the airport.
Which is why you hire some kid to buy it. Or worse yet, buy it through a burner phone and address off of e-bay.