This is not the first pesticide dilemma for honeybees.
Many US farmers are using neo-nicotinoid pesticides that cause Colony Collapse Disorder (which kills colonies). The EU has already banned them. US politicians are successfully lobbied by big pharma to ignore the ramifications.
There are also a list of other colony-weakening pests that have arisen over the past 10-12 years here in the US: varroa mite, American Foulbrood, Nosema, European Foulbrood, Chalkbrood, hive beetle, etc...
Adding the Zika pesticide the way it was used is a truly irresponsible thing to do.
How do we educate our peoples and judges to consider SCIENTIFIC facts?!
It IS serious biz, yet we will survive w/o honeybees; albeit not at the standard we are used to.
Honeybees, while NOT indigenous to the Americas, do pollinate roughly a third of our plant foods; many as exclusive pollinators.
Not to mention the other benefits: honey, pollen (for health and medicine), wax, apitherapy, etc....
The point is that we do need honeybees if we wish to keep our wide variety of foods AND keep our economy up.
Wouldn't a Dyson sphere require a vastly considerable amount of resource material?
I wonder if there is not enough material in all 8 known planets plus asteroid belt to construct a Dyson sphere around our own star.
Not to mention the inconceivable amount of other resources needed to process and construct the thing; like workers and manufacturing facilities.
My money would be on a more naturally occurring phenomena. Perhaps a dark object(s) occluding view, or an as-yet unknown type of core reaction.
...we are obviously not smart enough to realize all the potential consequences of such a drastic action. It'd likely be more 'Future Shock' ramifications. We are just 'monkeys with a machine gun'!
So if someone pays to place a Pokemon object to catch in a dangerous place, like, say, down on a subway track, and activates that object at the right time, then there is a chance that some poor Pokemon Go player may go after that object and get hit by a train?!
What is the point of making negative comments like this?!
PLEASE at least TRY to understand something before you offer negative comments.
Any possibility of recovering a valuable satellite is totally valid with me; and NASA too.
Yet, to satisfy your ire, you can be sure there will no attempt to salvage you when you stop communicating. BTW: When can we expect that?
I believe this journalist got it wrong. The anthrax breakout was a result of warmer weather. Not the other way around.
With the sloppy journalism, and no doubt editing, we the people need to beware! Let's get the corporate media to invest in honest, accurate reporters and editors; and please publish real truths!
Nothing new here! It is typical government bullshit: Put friends and family in charge, regardless of the potential to further break a system!
HEAR THIS: It is IMPERATIVE that fully qualified people need to run regulatory, or ANY other, agencies.
Non-qualified persons in a job ALWAYS make matters worse. Period.
Just because you are an activist does NOT make you qualified! You are likely just looking for a bandwagon to jump on. GET THE FACTS, PLEASE!
In order for the single user to get caught, someone needs to catch them. Someone with the power to monitor said traffic. Perhaps even those very same someones that Snowden exposed?! IF you catch my drift...
This is a really good point. And I am all for making ISPs common carriers, subject to those rules.
Yet, if ISPs in their current categorization are required to now police content, which seems out of their scope of responsibilities, then perhaps the recording industry should be paying them for that service!
BTW: Who monitors when my friends cover tunes at a gathering?
I say no because the features over Win7Pro present too high a learning curve for most users.
The vast majority of my clients do not wish to become computer weenies. They love XP because it worked for everything they needed. Win7 was an easy migration albeit a bit less stable (skipping the nightmares of Vista, and now Win8.x). Yet I get major complaints that the migration to Win10 is too unnecessary and to much trouble for the effort. My clients have important work to keep doing.
I am actually inclined to just go with a good Linux distribution. If one must learn a new computing system every few years, why not just bite the bullit and go Linux. There are far smaller learning curves between updates and version releases. And, there are more and more apps available; plenty to meet my clients' needs. And, more stable and faster!
Oh - I forgot to mention - since junk mail looks like it may not be going away, then send me your speech in the mail. I can then read it at my leisure and use it to start my fireplace. Just don't call me!
Outlawing robo calls - political or otherwise - is NOT an infringement on the 2nd Amendment. The 'speech' is not being denied. Just the act of forcing it upon people. Put the speech where we can get to it when we want it. I will come to see you speak before I cast my vote. I want to have the right to OPT-IN to things, not be forced to hear them, or have to OPT-OUT.
Privacy trumps this decision here. I have the right to not be bothered by ANY unsolicited call on my phones. My phones are tools for MY use, not a path for unsolicited anything.
Incidentally, mail is another abused media. near 98% of all mail I get is JUNK! If ew were to let those trees live rather than become junk mail, would it help reduce CO2 and slow climate change?
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Oh how true ;)
e.g. There still a very high risk of getting cancer if you don't buy my IT services!
Does it really matter - practicality-wise?
My guess is that we will all be looooong gone before we get -- there?!
25 to 50 ft diameter is not a worthy candidate for the millions it'd take to just get to it, let alone mine it!
And, what about the possibility of introducing unwanted organisms to our biosphere?
Perhaps we should use a very generous definition of 'life", so that we don't interfere with a potentially better outcome that was ours!
Could we just go there as humans? I need to get away from the rampant stupidity here on Earth!
Agreed. So, if you do not want the job as described, they why would one accept the position - and then rebel?!
This is not the first pesticide dilemma for honeybees.
Many US farmers are using neo-nicotinoid pesticides that cause Colony Collapse Disorder (which kills colonies).
The EU has already banned them. US politicians are successfully lobbied by big pharma to ignore the ramifications.
There are also a list of other colony-weakening pests that have arisen over the past 10-12 years here in the US: varroa mite, American Foulbrood, Nosema, European Foulbrood, Chalkbrood, hive beetle, etc...
Adding the Zika pesticide the way it was used is a truly irresponsible thing to do.
How do we educate our peoples and judges to consider SCIENTIFIC facts?!
It IS serious biz, yet we will survive w/o honeybees; albeit not at the standard we are used to.
Honeybees, while NOT indigenous to the Americas, do pollinate roughly a third of our plant foods; many as exclusive pollinators.
Not to mention the other benefits: honey, pollen (for health and medicine), wax, apitherapy, etc....
The point is that we do need honeybees if we wish to keep our wide variety of foods AND keep our economy up.
Wouldn't a Dyson sphere require a vastly considerable amount of resource material?
I wonder if there is not enough material in all 8 known planets plus asteroid belt to construct a Dyson sphere around our own star.
Not to mention the inconceivable amount of other resources needed to process and construct the thing; like workers and manufacturing facilities.
My money would be on a more naturally occurring phenomena. Perhaps a dark object(s) occluding view, or an as-yet unknown type of core reaction.
...we are obviously not smart enough to realize all the potential consequences of such a drastic action. It'd likely be more 'Future Shock' ramifications. We are just 'monkeys with a machine gun'!
Perhaps we should kill all the jihadists first.
BREXIT - It is what happens when you give uneducated idiots the vote.
Ah. Here is an example of allowing poorly educated minds have too much power.
Perhaps direct a chunk of this heavy precipitation to the western USA to relieve some drought!
So if someone pays to place a Pokemon object to catch in a dangerous place, like, say, down on a subway track, and activates that object at the right time, then there is a chance that some poor Pokemon Go player may go after that object and get hit by a train?!
What is the point of making negative comments like this?!
PLEASE at least TRY to understand something before you offer negative comments.
Any possibility of recovering a valuable satellite is totally valid with me; and NASA too.
Yet, to satisfy your ire, you can be sure there will no attempt to salvage you when you stop communicating. BTW: When can we expect that?
I believe this journalist got it wrong. The anthrax breakout was a result of warmer weather. Not the other way around.
With the sloppy journalism, and no doubt editing, we the people need to beware! Let's get the corporate media to invest in honest, accurate reporters and editors; and please publish real truths!
Nothing new here! It is typical government bullshit: Put friends and family in charge, regardless of the potential to further break a system!
HEAR THIS: It is IMPERATIVE that fully qualified people need to run regulatory, or ANY other, agencies.
Non-qualified persons in a job ALWAYS make matters worse. Period.
Just because you are an activist does NOT make you qualified! You are likely just looking for a bandwagon to jump on. GET THE FACTS, PLEASE!
In order for the single user to get caught, someone needs to catch them. Someone with the power to monitor said traffic. Perhaps even those very same someones that Snowden exposed?! IF you catch my drift...
This is a really good point. And I am all for making ISPs common carriers, subject to those rules.
Yet, if ISPs in their current categorization are required to now police content, which seems out of their scope of responsibilities, then perhaps the recording industry should be paying them for that service!
BTW: Who monitors when my friends cover tunes at a gathering?
I am more excited to see how the communication using QM entanglement works!
If it works (per theory), then there would be nearly zero delay, as communication would not be via EM waves (which travel at the slow speed of light).
Vermont targeting 100% by 2017?! Way to go, Bernie! You should run for president!
It seems an unsure thing that ISP should be required to 'police' their users activities. ISP primarily sell access to the web.
Seems more appropriate that ISP provide infringers' info (who and where they are). Then Rightscorp can enforce those rights directly.
It just seems that ISP should nt be held liable for users' infringements.
Sorry, dear deserving artist. Sue the infringer.
I say no because the features over Win7Pro present too high a learning curve for most users.
The vast majority of my clients do not wish to become computer weenies. They love XP because it worked for everything they needed. Win7 was an easy migration albeit a bit less stable (skipping the nightmares of Vista, and now Win8.x). Yet I get major complaints that the migration to Win10 is too unnecessary and to much trouble for the effort. My clients have important work to keep doing.
I am actually inclined to just go with a good Linux distribution. If one must learn a new computing system every few years, why not just bite the bullit and go Linux. There are far smaller learning curves between updates and version releases. And, there are more and more apps available; plenty to meet my clients' needs. And, more stable and faster!
Oh - I forgot to mention - since junk mail looks like it may not be going away, then send me your speech in the mail. I can then read it at my leisure and use it to start my fireplace. Just don't call me!
Outlawing robo calls - political or otherwise - is NOT an infringement on the 2nd Amendment. The 'speech' is not being denied. Just the act of forcing it upon people. Put the speech where we can get to it when we want it. I will come to see you speak before I cast my vote. I want to have the right to OPT-IN to things, not be forced to hear them, or have to OPT-OUT.
Privacy trumps this decision here. I have the right to not be bothered by ANY unsolicited call on my phones. My phones are tools for MY use, not a path for unsolicited anything.
Incidentally, mail is another abused media. near 98% of all mail I get is JUNK! If ew were to let those trees live rather than become junk mail, would it help reduce CO2 and slow climate change?