In the last decades, my country has been planted with millions of eucalyptus and wild pines, that are completely alien, to produce paper.
The results: We have almost no native forest, every summer there are big wild fires all around the country, the eucalyptus suck all the water from kilometres around, ruining the few farmers and herders that still subsist.
The planting areas that were abandoned because of fires of owner carelessness are now bare, completely exposed to soil erosion. These areas are will eventually become desert land in the next years if nothing is done.
Of course, the government could step in and take two measures:
Take over bare areas and replant with native trees.
Every spring, coercively clean the neglected plantations to avoid fires, and punish the owners.
But in these days of free-market fundamentalism, the government can't do shit because it would go against the "legitimate rights" of the land owners or something. When the whole country looks like Saudi Arabia without the oil, the land owners can stuff their legitimate rights up their asses and try to survive eating sand.
Mentioning terrorists, Iran and Venezuela. Dude, they missed mentioning children that could buy it over the Internet.
People have to be afraid of some baddies, even fictitious ones, to forget about the economy. It has worked since the dawn of times, why change now? When the US considers a small and poor country like Cuba to be such a huge threat, what would you expect?
This summary is full of shit. The highly toxic and addictive effects of nicotine are very well known for decades. The poster dares comparing it with caffeine, recognised as beneficial to health? How is it possible to post such an obvious biased and lying piece of shit in Slashdot?
Humanity has survived and can again survive despite the extinction of a primary food source.
Yeah, we could survive by eating roots only once a week. But I don't just want to survive, I want to live. Depleting the resources on which we depend is not good, regardless of any extinctions that happened a gazillion years ago.
we farm things, including fish. Fish farms are not impacted by the separate welfare of wild species.
That doesn't make it a good idea to extinguish the wild species. It may shock you, but they are a very important reserve of genetic material. Also they contribute to the balance that allows us to live in this planet, balance that we shouldn't be disturbing like irresponsible children.
Well, 250 million years ago it must have sucked big time for those creatures who ate fish.
Maybe we can't avoid a mass extinction like that, but we definitely shouldn't be causing the extinction of one of our main food sources. It's not very clever, if you know what I mean.
Sure. I have nothing better to do than maintaining my hosts file to block every single domain that serves ads. And you should see my mom hacking away with her computer's hosts file.
I don't even know why people use silly tools like browsers. I telnet to every site and write all the HTTP requests by hand, header by header. I don't get any ads this way because I don't type the requests to download the ads. See? Easy!
You may find it "mildly unpleasant". Yet, it's a very damaging act, not only for the smoker but the ones around him. Worse yet if he smokes at home and has children. Even not smoking in the presence of the children causes them lots of harm because the noxious substances from smoke stay around for weeks.
Still, the comparison is stupid. I can't understand the point tomhudson is trying to make with his post.
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In the last decades, my country has been planted with millions of eucalyptus and wild pines, that are completely alien, to produce paper.
The results: We have almost no native forest, every summer there are big wild fires all around the country, the eucalyptus suck all the water from kilometres around, ruining the few farmers and herders that still subsist.
The planting areas that were abandoned because of fires of owner carelessness are now bare, completely exposed to soil erosion. These areas are will eventually become desert land in the next years if nothing is done.
Of course, the government could step in and take two measures:
But in these days of free-market fundamentalism, the government can't do shit because it would go against the "legitimate rights" of the land owners or something. When the whole country looks like Saudi Arabia without the oil, the land owners can stuff their legitimate rights up their asses and try to survive eating sand.
Yeah, but then it's stinky. You should probably just read today's news, it's more current anyway.
No, they stink just the same.
We should tell him, "Welcome to the XX century, Ratzo". Now hurry up, we're already in the XXI.
Mentioning terrorists, Iran and Venezuela. Dude, they missed mentioning children that could buy it over the Internet.
People have to be afraid of some baddies, even fictitious ones, to forget about the economy. It has worked since the dawn of times, why change now? When the US considers a small and poor country like Cuba to be such a huge threat, what would you expect?
I also hate computers. I just chose to become an engineer because I hate people more.
No problem. Our IT manager downloads the porn and sends it to a list of people. Both me and my boss are in the list.
This summary is full of shit. The highly toxic and addictive effects of nicotine are very well known for decades. The poster dares comparing it with caffeine, recognised as beneficial to health? How is it possible to post such an obvious biased and lying piece of shit in Slashdot?
Bye, good luck with your trolling.
Look who's talking. You've been writing the same thing over and over, ignoring what I write.
Dude, you live in denial. And you obviously don't know shit about biology. Go be happy in your artificial little world. Enjoy your Soylent Green.
Humanity has survived and can again survive despite the extinction of a primary food source.
Yeah, we could survive by eating roots only once a week. But I don't just want to survive, I want to live. Depleting the resources on which we depend is not good, regardless of any extinctions that happened a gazillion years ago.
we farm things, including fish. Fish farms are not impacted by the separate welfare of wild species.
That doesn't make it a good idea to extinguish the wild species. It may shock you, but they are a very important reserve of genetic material. Also they contribute to the balance that allows us to live in this planet, balance that we shouldn't be disturbing like irresponsible children.
Well, 250 million years ago it must have sucked big time for those creatures who ate fish.
Maybe we can't avoid a mass extinction like that, but we definitely shouldn't be causing the extinction of one of our main food sources. It's not very clever, if you know what I mean.
What the fuck does it have to do with the left? Have you checked under your bed today? There may be a commie hiding.
What happened to good old tits n' ass?
I think now the gangsters, instead of buying a phone, will steal it from some poor dude and then threaten to slay his whole family if he reports it.
until the baby reaches three days (they don't issue birth certificates until then,
Would you care to detail which countries? I live in Europe and the birth certificate can be issued immediately after birth in my country.
I use a Java applet to file my taxes every year.
My company sells some desktop solutions based in Java. You wouldn't even know they're made in Java if you used them.
AdBlock and later AdBlock Plus has always been the first extension I install on a new system.
Dude, I wish I had mod points. You took the words from my fingers. And NoScript is the second one.
Well, call me selfish but I hate publicity. If the website makes a profit or not is not my problem. I just don't want to look at any ads on webpages.
Not that I can think of a better system, though. But I'm not the Mother Teresa of websites.
Sure. I have nothing better to do than maintaining my hosts file to block every single domain that serves ads. And you should see my mom hacking away with her computer's hosts file.
I don't even know why people use silly tools like browsers. I telnet to every site and write all the HTTP requests by hand, header by header. I don't get any ads this way because I don't type the requests to download the ads. See? Easy!
What's an "inch"?
If both are under 18, then it is mutual statutory rape under the laws of the fine state of Wisconsin.
So where is Wisconsin, in Saudi Arabia? Is this kind of stupid shit ever enforced?
I didn't know the sea bottom was made of corduroy. And Russians found it a good idea to make subs out of it, too. Wouldn't steel be a better idea?
I think most guys still have good times after marriage. Just not with their wives, though...
You may find it "mildly unpleasant". Yet, it's a very damaging act, not only for the smoker but the ones around him. Worse yet if he smokes at home and has children. Even not smoking in the presence of the children causes them lots of harm because the noxious substances from smoke stay around for weeks.
Still, the comparison is stupid. I can't understand the point tomhudson is trying to make with his post.