Some of those fungi are endophytes, and they coexist with grasses. Most turf grass has endophytes in it. The endophytes allow the grass to stay greener, longer into the summer with less water, for one, which is great for lawns, etc. Most forage grasses don't, as some of the endophytes do bad things to livestock (rye grass staggers) and horses.
Only problem is that the Columbia River (unless it's a different columbia river) does not flow anywhere near Montana.
Yes, the Snake River dams are a big PITA. These dams aren't like the dams on the Elwha river in Washington, some of the mill dams in the Northeast, etc. These dams have far larger regional implications on whether they stay or go. One of the bigger effects will be on livestock throughout the northwest US. Losing irrigation in that area will likely make regional hay prices go through the roof.
For example, Northwest CAFO dairy farmers have been moving to or establishing operations in Idaho in droves, in part because of large areas of irrigated land that can be put into alfalfa, corn and high quality hay production (and dairy land in Puget Sound, Willamette Valley, etc. is constantly shrinking. Tillamook area of Oregon is too small, but probably not going away because most of the good dairy land is also flood plain). Losing this irrigation will increase the pressure on their feed supplies. That will make regional production of other foods that depend on this irrigation more expensive, probably putting a hard pinch on "buy local" efforts as well, certainly for dairy products. Hard to justify buying local or even regional when doing so costs 2x more than the Kraft Krap, Nestle Noxiousness and Dean Foods BS. And dairy farmers are relatively politically protected (most other farmers and ranchers just take it up the ass when their markets disappear for whatever reason short of environmental events. But dairy farmers get herd buyouts and all sorts of other cushions), so they're not going to go down without a fight or making everyone else pay for their "pain and suffering". Which is sad, because even with the herd buyouts and glut of cows going to slaughter, the commodity price of beef will remain unchanged...
But as far as the sentiment of hauling ourselves out of a depression now, that's a hard one, too. Doing it now would certainly add insult to injury with our current state of economy, but that is slowly changing. But whether the Snake River dams stay or go w.r.t. the current situation is really just a strawman argument, as they neither caused or contributed to the real estate blow up, and they aren't contributing to it getting better, either.
But on the other hand, this issue is not going away. I guess I fall on the side of doing things now, in a controlled fashion, than waiting, denying, blaming it on others, until it all blows up in one paroxysm of a bad day in court (say, if a compelling case is made in federal court and a judge orders some pretty dramatic remedies and target KPIs. Just ask Puget Sound fishermen about how that goes, the judge's name in that case was Boldt). Maybe fish ladders can help, but to be realistic, the amount of water flow through the ladders that would help realistically reestablish Columbia & Snake River salmon runs is probably a non-starter. What would pass now would be good political theater, but only marginally better than what existing Snake River salmon put up with now.
And this is just with water flow through the Snake River dams. It does not do anything at all about reestablishing salmon spawning grounds on all the various and sundry tributaries, which opens up a big chicken-or-egg argument for further down the road as well. What is the point of reestablishing salmon spawning habitat when there are still major roadblocks downstream? And what is the point in mediating the Snake River dams w.r.t. salmon runs if there is no upstream spawning habitat, assuming the salmon eventually "take" to the reestablished habitat?
All the while I realize I'm ignoring the plight and maltreatment of the original inhabitants of the area, at some level relegating them to "sorry, you've been too fucked over by us for us to ever be able to make it right for you", because probably the only realistic remedy is just not possible.
Really? As if they don't pour over anything they might find left over on the battlefield? They (Al Queso, et al) are not stupid, even if they are social and cultural backasses, even in the Islamic world. They're probably getting some I2 help from some of our "friends" as well as enemies as well... if the govment ok'd it, that toothpaste has already been squished out of the tube long ago. and it's not too hard to read AvLeak, Janes's publications, etc. and put two and two together, either.
Get over it.
The "terrorists" are not quite as rational, though. Their motivation seems to be to make us weaker with their own form of "shock and awe", and as such, these things are made to trigger our sphincter reflexes socially and culturally, not by rationally trying to identify strategic weak points or single points of failure and going after them.
Bomb goes off outside of L3's corporate offices? For our press, though, it's a BFD, unless L3 also had the corporate child care center there. It would still be some good press, but wouldn't really do much at all to stop what L3 does, as production would ship to other facilities or maybe even competitors helping out. The long-term net effect would be like pissing in the ocean to turn it yellow.
...no, it'll just be a different, more effervescent form of hocus-pocus. It will be used just as much to control and pit peoples against each other, but we unwashed masses will get to be "empowered" and "driven by personal choice" in the matter. Moral relativism, mr pope? Well, if your goal is to ensure the continued existence of the Church, and that is all that matters, there is no moral relativism at all there in that, as the end justifies the means. No different than a trading company helping out a whale of a customer with a contrarian bet win at the expense of a bunch of slightly less greedy and duplicitous bastards who are being pumped to buy in the particular investment device, because the trading company itself stands to make more money if the investment blows up and fails than the other way around...
if the Church is under crossfire, it's been bringing it on itself for the last 1000 years or so. The pope may be a "great" man, but he stands on the burned bodies of thousands of people his predecessors have deemed unfit for their god's love.
Sorry, not ad hominem attack in his particular case. Serious cases were brought to his attention. He & his council sat on them. And when they acted, it was at best just a "sorry about that" letter to the victim (maybe they even sent them stuffed Pedobears to help the feel better), if that, and the offender was shuffled off somewhere else. Too freaking scared/arrogant to police their own, even. And now as the Pope, he has to preserve the image of infalability. Which is total bullshit. If he was a human before he became the poop^h^hpe, he's just as human now.
Except the choice will be (or perceived to be, or lobbied TO be, by the insurance company...) "either cover 95% of the people or you can't do business in CA". Guess which option they'll take?
well, Bremsstrahlung came about due to what happens in a cyclotron - as the electrons are bent around their circular orbit, they of course emit Xrays. There are some cyclotron/synchrotrons that aren't entirely circular for their entire orbit, but more polygonal with rounded corners, and each corner is a testing station where objects can be exposed to the bremsstrahlung radiation. One obvious use is for high-intensity, high-frequency Xray imaging (lower diffraction, finer resolution, etc)...
but WA's output is ephemeral, and constantly changing. Those steam tables aren't. Plus, WA's source materials are likely copyrighted themselves, so Wolfram is claiming copyright over other copyrighted stuff.
Sorry, but the reality is, for people posting to these threads here and elsewhere, "rude driver" == "everyone not driving like me". It's always someone else's fault for screwing up traffic.
Don't forget all the methane that comes off of feed lots and dairy ponds.
At least as far as dairy cows in the US, if milk prices don't get better soon, then "market conditions" will take care of the dairy cow head count soon enough. As in, USDA will establish a herd buy-out program (funny, they don't do that for sheep, pigs or beef cows...).
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...and so do plenty of bystanders.
Some of those fungi are endophytes, and they coexist with grasses. Most turf grass has endophytes in it. The endophytes allow the grass to stay greener, longer into the summer with less water, for one, which is great for lawns, etc. Most forage grasses don't, as some of the endophytes do bad things to livestock (rye grass staggers) and horses.
Stop making the terrorists' jobs easier! /s
Only problem is that the Columbia River (unless it's a different columbia river) does not flow anywhere near Montana.
Yes, the Snake River dams are a big PITA. These dams aren't like the dams on the Elwha river in Washington, some of the mill dams in the Northeast, etc. These dams have far larger regional implications on whether they stay or go. One of the bigger effects will be on livestock throughout the northwest US. Losing irrigation in that area will likely make regional hay prices go through the roof.
For example, Northwest CAFO dairy farmers have been moving to or establishing operations in Idaho in droves, in part because of large areas of irrigated land that can be put into alfalfa, corn and high quality hay production (and dairy land in Puget Sound, Willamette Valley, etc. is constantly shrinking. Tillamook area of Oregon is too small, but probably not going away because most of the good dairy land is also flood plain). Losing this irrigation will increase the pressure on their feed supplies. That will make regional production of other foods that depend on this irrigation more expensive, probably putting a hard pinch on "buy local" efforts as well, certainly for dairy products. Hard to justify buying local or even regional when doing so costs 2x more than the Kraft Krap, Nestle Noxiousness and Dean Foods BS. And dairy farmers are relatively politically protected (most other farmers and ranchers just take it up the ass when their markets disappear for whatever reason short of environmental events. But dairy farmers get herd buyouts and all sorts of other cushions), so they're not going to go down without a fight or making everyone else pay for their "pain and suffering". Which is sad, because even with the herd buyouts and glut of cows going to slaughter, the commodity price of beef will remain unchanged...
But as far as the sentiment of hauling ourselves out of a depression now, that's a hard one, too. Doing it now would certainly add insult to injury with our current state of economy, but that is slowly changing. But whether the Snake River dams stay or go w.r.t. the current situation is really just a strawman argument, as they neither caused or contributed to the real estate blow up, and they aren't contributing to it getting better, either.
But on the other hand, this issue is not going away. I guess I fall on the side of doing things now, in a controlled fashion, than waiting, denying, blaming it on others, until it all blows up in one paroxysm of a bad day in court (say, if a compelling case is made in federal court and a judge orders some pretty dramatic remedies and target KPIs. Just ask Puget Sound fishermen about how that goes, the judge's name in that case was Boldt). Maybe fish ladders can help, but to be realistic, the amount of water flow through the ladders that would help realistically reestablish Columbia & Snake River salmon runs is probably a non-starter. What would pass now would be good political theater, but only marginally better than what existing Snake River salmon put up with now.
And this is just with water flow through the Snake River dams. It does not do anything at all about reestablishing salmon spawning grounds on all the various and sundry tributaries, which opens up a big chicken-or-egg argument for further down the road as well. What is the point of reestablishing salmon spawning habitat when there are still major roadblocks downstream? And what is the point in mediating the Snake River dams w.r.t. salmon runs if there is no upstream spawning habitat, assuming the salmon eventually "take" to the reestablished habitat?
All the while I realize I'm ignoring the plight and maltreatment of the original inhabitants of the area, at some level relegating them to "sorry, you've been too fucked over by us for us to ever be able to make it right for you", because probably the only realistic remedy is just not possible.
Really? As if they don't pour over anything they might find left over on the battlefield? They (Al Queso, et al) are not stupid, even if they are social and cultural backasses, even in the Islamic world. They're probably getting some I2 help from some of our "friends" as well as enemies as well... if the govment ok'd it, that toothpaste has already been squished out of the tube long ago. and it's not too hard to read AvLeak, Janes's publications, etc. and put two and two together, either.
Get over it.
The "terrorists" are not quite as rational, though. Their motivation seems to be to make us weaker with their own form of "shock and awe", and as such, these things are made to trigger our sphincter reflexes socially and culturally, not by rationally trying to identify strategic weak points or single points of failure and going after them.
Bomb goes off outside of L3's corporate offices? For our press, though, it's a BFD, unless L3 also had the corporate child care center there. It would still be some good press, but wouldn't really do much at all to stop what L3 does, as production would ship to other facilities or maybe even competitors helping out. The long-term net effect would be like pissing in the ocean to turn it yellow.
...and just threaten an overflight of your annoying neighbors by the thing...
...no, it'll just be a different, more effervescent form of hocus-pocus. It will be used just as much to control and pit peoples against each other, but we unwashed masses will get to be "empowered" and "driven by personal choice" in the matter. Moral relativism, mr pope? Well, if your goal is to ensure the continued existence of the Church, and that is all that matters, there is no moral relativism at all there in that, as the end justifies the means. No different than a trading company helping out a whale of a customer with a contrarian bet win at the expense of a bunch of slightly less greedy and duplicitous bastards who are being pumped to buy in the particular investment device, because the trading company itself stands to make more money if the investment blows up and fails than the other way around...
if the Church is under crossfire, it's been bringing it on itself for the last 1000 years or so. The pope may be a "great" man, but he stands on the burned bodies of thousands of people his predecessors have deemed unfit for their god's love.
Sorry, not ad hominem attack in his particular case. Serious cases were brought to his attention. He & his council sat on them. And when they acted, it was at best just a "sorry about that" letter to the victim (maybe they even sent them stuffed Pedobears to help the feel better), if that, and the offender was shuffled off somewhere else. Too freaking scared/arrogant to police their own, even. And now as the Pope, he has to preserve the image of infalability. Which is total bullshit. If he was a human before he became the poop^h^hpe, he's just as human now.
Immature? No, classic narcissists. Remember, they're the VICTIMS, not the, you know, victims.
Hmm... don't they call them "market makers" for a reason?
Except...the Canadian auto industry is really just a subsidiary of the US auto industry.
Except the choice will be (or perceived to be, or lobbied TO be, by the insurance company...) "either cover 95% of the people or you can't do business in CA". Guess which option they'll take?
well, Bremsstrahlung came about due to what happens in a cyclotron - as the electrons are bent around their circular orbit, they of course emit Xrays. There are some cyclotron/synchrotrons that aren't entirely circular for their entire orbit, but more polygonal with rounded corners, and each corner is a testing station where objects can be exposed to the bremsstrahlung radiation. One obvious use is for high-intensity, high-frequency Xray imaging (lower diffraction, finer resolution, etc)...
and the firebombings of Tokyo, Dresden, Berlin, et al. weren't?
Maybe, except the power poles or buried utility wires probably exist on an easement set up by the local government bodies... good luck on that one.
Yes, to change rates, but not so much about fees...
but WA's output is ephemeral, and constantly changing. Those steam tables aren't. Plus, WA's source materials are likely copyrighted themselves, so Wolfram is claiming copyright over other copyrighted stuff.
Sorry, but the reality is, for people posting to these threads here and elsewhere, "rude driver" == "everyone not driving like me". It's always someone else's fault for screwing up traffic.
...but it sure is exciting to do on a 2-lane road!
Has something to do with each session needing to spawn its own JVM in JRuby or something like that...
No, it's made from an extract from their exoskeletons...
if you have a pressure hull breech in a submarine, you have bigger problems, especially if you're at depth...
Don't forget all the methane that comes off of feed lots and dairy ponds.
At least as far as dairy cows in the US, if milk prices don't get better soon, then "market conditions" will take care of the dairy cow head count soon enough. As in, USDA will establish a herd buy-out program (funny, they don't do that for sheep, pigs or beef cows...).
and, state sales tax AND income tax...