So, instead of harvesting wild fish to feed the farmed fish, we harvest the wild plankton that feed the wild fish that we don't want to kill.
Yes, you eliminate the middleman (middlefish?) but you are farming just the same. Ecologically, you are stomping on the food chain at a lower level which can cause even bigger issues. Lots and lots of things in the ocean (including the ocean bottom itself) feed on plankton.
You're exactly right, but how do you get from here to there? If current demographic trends hold, we are drop down to a reasonable carrying capacity in 2100 or so.
Are you crazy? The current powers that be would love to denigrate Anthropogenic Climate Change. Their is lots of money to be found supporting the current economic paradigm of full steam (literally) ahead. The fact that their is little debate in the field makes me very worried. Remember, scientists, if left to their own devices, would argue about what day it is.
This isn't the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody gets impaled for saying things that run against the grain of major opinion. The only naysayers are a few irrational folks whose thinking has been conclusively to be incorrect.
Grab your shorts and sun screen. Then grab your ankles.
If anyone thinks Dropbox, or any other hosted storage system has privacy as a core function is major league delusional. I use Dropbox all of the time. For stuff that isn't intensely private - including encrypted sparse images. I think Dropbox or it's ilk is OK for everyday use, but if you want something private, keep it under your control.
Not that I think having Ms. Rice on the board makes any kind of sense unless you are trying to suck up to the Powers that Be and get in bed with everyone else (for the dollars, of course).
But look at the bright side of things - they could have asked Larry Ellison.
Yeah, I'm not so sure that the Chrome God should be anywhere near students on a regular basis. It's just another $computer would be great for learning rant.
Thinking about it, it really explains a lot of the Bible. Messed up vocabulary, slow network, dissolute macros. I'll bet papyrus made a lousy microphone diaphragm.
OTOH ignoring emails (and the microproblems they typically allude to) just might make one more productive and happier to boot. If you ignore someone on a regular basis, they typically go elsewhere to find the answer to life, the universe and everything.
I've used that selectively and I find it a very refreshing change of pace.
And in a FREE world, you could also respond to work-related issues after hours.
The only reason the vast majority of people respond to work email outside of work is that they will be punished otherwise.
The only reason? How about fixing minor things before they become major? Helping coworkers and expecting a quid pro quo? Interest in the world? Helping the poor, weak, and downtrodden?
And money. Lots of money. Don't forget that. I get paid a lot of money to be on call.
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So, instead of harvesting wild fish to feed the farmed fish, we harvest the wild plankton that feed the wild fish that we don't want to kill.
Yes, you eliminate the middleman (middlefish?) but you are farming just the same. Ecologically, you are stomping on the food chain at a lower level which can cause even bigger issues. Lots and lots of things in the ocean (including the ocean bottom itself) feed on plankton.
Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
Always ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
we are drop down?
Sorry, caffeine insufficiency. Off to rectify that issue.
You're exactly right, but how do you get from here to there? If current demographic trends hold, we are drop down to a reasonable carrying capacity in 2100 or so.
Or next week, depending on the scenario.
Are you crazy? The current powers that be would love to denigrate Anthropogenic Climate Change. Their is lots of money to be found supporting the current economic paradigm of full steam (literally) ahead. The fact that their is little debate in the field makes me very worried. Remember, scientists, if left to their own devices, would argue about what day it is.
This isn't the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody gets impaled for saying things that run against the grain of major opinion. The only naysayers are a few irrational folks whose thinking has been conclusively to be incorrect.
Grab your shorts and sun screen. Then grab your ankles.
Dropbox and privacy are core to its mission
Wrong.
If anyone thinks Dropbox, or any other hosted storage system has privacy as a core function is major league delusional. I use Dropbox all of the time. For stuff that isn't intensely private - including encrypted sparse images. I think Dropbox or it's ilk is OK for everyday use, but if you want something private, keep it under your control.
Not that I think having Ms. Rice on the board makes any kind of sense unless you are trying to suck up to the Powers that Be and get in bed with everyone else (for the dollars, of course).
But look at the bright side of things - they could have asked Larry Ellison.
Yeah, I'm not so sure that the Chrome God should be anywhere near students on a regular basis. It's just another $computer would be great for learning rant.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Thinking about it, it really explains a lot of the Bible. Messed up vocabulary, slow network, dissolute macros. I'll bet papyrus made a lousy microphone diaphragm.
God is obviously from Human Resources.
Nobody else could get things so wrong.
It's Dragon Dictate all the way down?
Yes, the hospital 'writes it off' but then, how do they pay for it? Buy upcharging everybody else.
(and upcharging every one else for lots of other things).
TANSTAAFL
OTOH ignoring emails (and the microproblems they typically allude to) just might make one more productive and happier to boot. If you ignore someone on a regular basis, they typically go elsewhere to find the answer to life, the universe and everything.
I've used that selectively and I find it a very refreshing change of pace.
I told you not to answer that.
And in a FREE world, you could also respond to work-related issues after hours.
The only reason the vast majority of people respond to work email outside of work is that they will be punished otherwise.
The only reason? How about fixing minor things before they become major? Helping coworkers and expecting a quid pro quo? Interest in the world? Helping the poor, weak, and downtrodden?
And money. Lots of money. Don't forget that. I get paid a lot of money to be on call.
Hell before the internet, I'd jack off at work (in the restroom of course) many a time.
Uh, now what do you do?
Wait. Don't answer that.
No, we sold that one to the Chinese.
Fool! You have to go to the Sharper Image catalog for that sort of thing.
Hell, Target doesn't even sell Mr. Fusions yet.
F=MA. M = big, A = very fast, therefore F = big very fast!
So, teaching in current mathematics has come to this?
We're doomed.
Depends on who she is and where you are parked.
Why do people think it's best to leave others living in the stone age?
Alive in the stone age or dead but part of the neoplastic mess that is Homo Industrialis?
You decide.
And in San Francisco you can pretty much be guaranteed to find both, sitting in a bar, arguing about it.
This guy was responsible for Javascript? The most convoluted and bizarre language this side of Lotus Notes?
Screw the bit about his stance on gays. He should be locked in a room with Ray Ozzie and left there until the Second Coming.
Wow! When did Southwest get ETOPS approval to fly over the Atlantic Ocean???
They didn't. They just get lost occasionally.
Is this a rule 34-type thing?
Towards an artificial politician.
From a slime mold. It's gotta work.