Time to invoke the prime directive and leave it alone.
Seriously, if this were true, it means we should restrict visits to Mars. Not only to have a chance to study evolving life over the next aeons, but also so we won't drag back something..
Yeah, like we left the Sandwich Islands alone after Cook visited, or the Americas after Columbus.
It's Manifest Destiny man, sure, we'll get a little bloody fighting the natives, but Mars is prime dirt, ripe for the taking - at least it is compared to Venus, Mercury or the moons of Jupiter.
Longer term, I think Venus is the more attractive terraforming target - more solar energy and atmosphere to work with, it's (relatively) easy to make a sun-shade, and we should be able to seed some extremophiles on Venus and eventually, over the next aeons, rework the atmospheric chemistry to something more habitable.
Yeah, there's no chance of that holding up, particularly since they've never forced me to see either the use requirement or the actual contract. Click-through has a small chance of holding up, but this? None.
And, what I intensely dislike about that is that, regardless of merit, suit can still be brought and you are compelled to defend, and usually appear. In my opinion, just being compelled to appear is a major nuisance.
Having all this, presently, meritless basis for suit generated as regular course of business should be in some way discouraged. A few bad decisions out of the courts could basically strip everyone of their rights by making everyone criminals due to violation of B.S. TOS (yes, it should be a civil issue, but so far, 3-1, the courts are calling it criminal?!!)
I barely trust our system to not screw everybody as it is, but the way the TOS thing is shaping up, it's just the Supreme Court that stands between us and insanity, and I feel like there's a non-vanishing chance they will rule in favor of the insane on this issue.
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At what point does unconscionable start? AT&T tripled their rates without telling me until I got the bill - should I have to pay that triple expected bill? How about 10x? How about 100x? Where's the line?
TOS are modified at a dizzying pace, if there were one TOS to read for a service per 10 years and 10 services with TOS in your average daily life, sure, that's fine. As it is, I have 2 hours of reading a month to do for my PS3, another 3-4 for my Apple products, about 10 hours a month for the various websites I like to visit, just for updates. Where does it stop?
If I were King, I'd require any TOS modifications to be compensated to the affected consumers at a rate that would pay a normal lawyer to read and interpret the changes for you. If the service is a "free" website, they can pay a "TOS modification tax" of the number of pages of TOS modified multiplied by the number of customers affected multiplied by the $50 per page it would cost to get a decent legal analysis of the change.
O.K. - maybe that's a little overboard, but I feel like we're just as far overboard in the other direction, with the bulk of consumers going through life never reading these "legally binding" things, the people writing them knowing that less than 1/100 consumers do more than even skim through them, and corporations "writing law" for themselves with virtually no review, checks or balances. Last time I went to the ER, I didn't have my reading glasses with me, I had to sign at least 5 different forms to get treatment, I suppose I could have had somebody sit down and read it to me for an hour while I bled and the infections spread... but, I might have lost consciousness before they got through the section releasing them from liability for malpractice.
Take a look at the process of how officials are elected.
What percentage of the voters actually directly know anything about how in/competent people are? It's largely based on a "telephone game" starting with who shouts the loudest, followed by which stories are the most interesting to repeat. Most information about how un/qualified a candidate is has been repeated and colored at least 4 times before it reaches the eyes and ears of the voting public.
Is it any wonder that we get the kind of people we get in government, especially at the county level?
If they have something that's really worthwhile, it's a combo system that uses the NNF to fill the hole to a level surface, the a traditional asphalt cap over that. The beauty of the NNF is that it fills the gaps and voids quickly, but still provides strong resistance for shock from cars driving over.
I also assume that they've used something non-biodegradable, corn starch wouldn't make it very long exposed on a highway.
Of course I could RTFA, but what would happen to my Karma if I did that?
If a corporation can unilaterally change a TOS agreement AFTER someone has signed up for the service (which they do all the time), how can anybody then claim that violating it is a criminal offense?
Even more, how can a corporation (say: JoeMerchantCorp) create a TOS and then get the police and courts of the land to enforce it for them? My TOS can state that you must dance on your hands naked in the waiting room after a late payment or your account will be revoked... and it can be a criminal offence to violate it?
The Navy did install a small nuclear reactor at McMurdo Station, which leaked, requiring a large chunk of the hill that it was located on to be excavated and hauled away for disposal.
O.K. so, McMurdo is prime real-estate, and the disposal site is....?
If you asked the anglerfish, they would have preferred you make the Penguins grow little glowing balls on stalks, instead.
My immediate questions are, what biochemical mechanism is in place that makes imidacloprid dangerous to bees
The one that was engineered into imidacloprid on purpose: it blocks nicotinoid pathways that primarily exist only in the central nervous systems of insects.
So, would it make a good "Stop Smoking" patch too?/humor
FWIW, this isn't the first study suggesting linkage to the pesticides, AFAIK there are dozens of those. This is, however, the first time I've heard of a linkage to the combination of HFCS and pesticides, and it could explain some of the negative correlation studies out there that say that the pesticides do not cause CCD.
"Mom and Pop" military was the Minute Man militia, they'll lose every time against a mechanized military backed by a large corporate industrial structure.
Really? I'm sure all our wonderful folks killed by roadside bombs, improvised explosives, and guerilla tactics will be very happy to hear that'd never happen. Oh, shit, right...
Well, yeah, from the "nobody wins" perspective, that is quite true. And the town full of villagers with pitchforks may eventually slay the dragon, or horde of footsoldiers with bayonette may take out a tank.
There's a tremendous difference between attempting to police an unwilling populace and simply attempting to take control of the land and buildings, natives be damned.
Those are the risks. If a global communications network fails, ya it'll suck but we'll deal. If the global food supply collapses while under the care of one corporation... who will be left alive to deal with the fallout?
Mexico, a lot of South America, China, India... Monsanto doesn't feed everyone. I agree that we are too dependent on "MegaCorp Food," but as long as the mentality of "Hell, no, I'm not paying $6 for this organic loaf of bread when that $2 one looks and tastes just the same to me" persists, the MegaCorps are going to continue to squash the old style farmers.
"Mom and Pop" roads were dirt footpaths, Interstates are better.
"Mom and Pop" military was the Minute Man militia, they'll lose every time against a mechanized military backed by a large corporate industrial structure.
"Mom and Pop" made the abacus for computing, Apple, and even Dell does it better.
"Mom and Pop" would communicate face to face, or shout across the field - telephone/global fiber/satellites improve on that.
Whether it's more warm and fuzzy, or a lifestyle you'd rather live, the "Mom and Pop" operations of the world are actually very un-competitive with mega corporations. Plain Darwinian survival of the fittest is going to put "Mom and Pop" down when the resources get tight, and as world population is headed to 10 Billion, resources do seem to be getting tight.
My hope for the future is that we get competent and capable enough to start colonizing other planets, so we can have some "Mom and Pop" Amish worlds, Native America circa 1300 worlds, and other places so the whole human race doesn't have to compete for the resources of a single planet. Not happening any time soon, I surely know, but the fossil record strongly suggests that in Darwin vs the Luddites, Darwin wins.
Anyone under 25 is a young stupid kid, period. No matter what school or background they come from, they lack experience.
Speak for yourself, by about 22 I was a rational adult - still drowning in hormones, but that applies to some men in their 60s, too.
Just because you and all your friends were idiots until 26 doesn't make it true for the rest of the world. I see most of the world as being controlled by people 55 and up, with a few rare exceptions where rich old farts have turned their children loose with some power. I think the younger generation could actually do better in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to preparing for the distant future.
35 minimum is a good rule for President, but from 50 up, they should start getting handicapped, like need to get their age in percentage of the popular vote to win against any opponent less than 50 years old.
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Time to invoke the prime directive and leave it alone.
Seriously, if this were true, it means we should restrict visits to Mars. Not only to have a chance to study evolving life over the next aeons, but also so we won't drag back something. .
Yeah, like we left the Sandwich Islands alone after Cook visited, or the Americas after Columbus.
It's Manifest Destiny man, sure, we'll get a little bloody fighting the natives, but Mars is prime dirt, ripe for the taking - at least it is compared to Venus, Mercury or the moons of Jupiter.
Longer term, I think Venus is the more attractive terraforming target - more solar energy and atmosphere to work with, it's (relatively) easy to make a sun-shade, and we should be able to seed some extremophiles on Venus and eventually, over the next aeons, rework the atmospheric chemistry to something more habitable.
It just seems to be popular to be a moron these days.
I think that has always been true.
Yeah, there's no chance of that holding up, particularly since they've never forced me to see either the use requirement or the actual contract. Click-through has a small chance of holding up, but this? None.
And, what I intensely dislike about that is that, regardless of merit, suit can still be brought and you are compelled to defend, and usually appear. In my opinion, just being compelled to appear is a major nuisance.
Having all this, presently, meritless basis for suit generated as regular course of business should be in some way discouraged. A few bad decisions out of the courts could basically strip everyone of their rights by making everyone criminals due to violation of B.S. TOS (yes, it should be a civil issue, but so far, 3-1, the courts are calling it criminal?!!)
I barely trust our system to not screw everybody as it is, but the way the TOS thing is shaping up, it's just the Supreme Court that stands between us and insanity, and I feel like there's a non-vanishing chance they will rule in favor of the insane on this issue.
While I would disagree in principle, they say you have:
Stuff like that is what bothers me.
This sounds pretty slippery to me, not sure how often it changes, I never even looked at it before:
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And TFA is talking about Criminal penalties...
At what point does unconscionable start? AT&T tripled their rates without telling me until I got the bill - should I have to pay that triple expected bill? How about 10x? How about 100x? Where's the line?
TOS are modified at a dizzying pace, if there were one TOS to read for a service per 10 years and 10 services with TOS in your average daily life, sure, that's fine. As it is, I have 2 hours of reading a month to do for my PS3, another 3-4 for my Apple products, about 10 hours a month for the various websites I like to visit, just for updates. Where does it stop?
If I were King, I'd require any TOS modifications to be compensated to the affected consumers at a rate that would pay a normal lawyer to read and interpret the changes for you. If the service is a "free" website, they can pay a "TOS modification tax" of the number of pages of TOS modified multiplied by the number of customers affected multiplied by the $50 per page it would cost to get a decent legal analysis of the change.
O.K. - maybe that's a little overboard, but I feel like we're just as far overboard in the other direction, with the bulk of consumers going through life never reading these "legally binding" things, the people writing them knowing that less than 1/100 consumers do more than even skim through them, and corporations "writing law" for themselves with virtually no review, checks or balances. Last time I went to the ER, I didn't have my reading glasses with me, I had to sign at least 5 different forms to get treatment, I suppose I could have had somebody sit down and read it to me for an hour while I bled and the infections spread... but, I might have lost consciousness before they got through the section releasing them from liability for malpractice.
So not tax simply incompetent management.
Take a look at the process of how officials are elected.
What percentage of the voters actually directly know anything about how in/competent people are? It's largely based on a "telephone game" starting with who shouts the loudest, followed by which stories are the most interesting to repeat. Most information about how un/qualified a candidate is has been repeated and colored at least 4 times before it reaches the eyes and ears of the voting public.
Is it any wonder that we get the kind of people we get in government, especially at the county level?
If they have something that's really worthwhile, it's a combo system that uses the NNF to fill the hole to a level surface, the a traditional asphalt cap over that. The beauty of the NNF is that it fills the gaps and voids quickly, but still provides strong resistance for shock from cars driving over.
I also assume that they've used something non-biodegradable, corn starch wouldn't make it very long exposed on a highway.
Of course I could RTFA, but what would happen to my Karma if I did that?
If a corporation can unilaterally change a TOS agreement AFTER someone has signed up for the service (which they do all the time), how can anybody then claim that violating it is a criminal offense?
Even more, how can a corporation (say: JoeMerchantCorp) create a TOS and then get the police and courts of the land to enforce it for them? My TOS can state that you must dance on your hands naked in the waiting room after a late payment or your account will be revoked... and it can be a criminal offence to violate it?
Late 1950s... Denmark was about as politically relevant to the U.S. as the Netherlands were to Hitler.
The Navy did install a small nuclear reactor at McMurdo Station, which leaked, requiring a large chunk of the hill that it was located on to be excavated and hauled away for disposal.
O.K. so, McMurdo is prime real-estate, and the disposal site is....?
If you asked the anglerfish, they would have preferred you make the Penguins grow little glowing balls on stalks, instead.
"Thousands of launch points, hundreds of missiles."
It would take about 3000 equally spaced launch points to cover that area. Ambitious, sure. Cheaper than the Normandy invasion? Definitely.
When you're the man in charge, scary is not useless.
My immediate questions are, what biochemical mechanism is in place that makes imidacloprid dangerous to bees
The one that was engineered into imidacloprid on purpose: it blocks nicotinoid pathways that primarily exist only in the central nervous systems of insects.
So, would it make a good "Stop Smoking" patch too? /humor
But was this food grade HFCS?
Is the FDA on board with pesticide being passed thru at detectable levels in a supposedly simple processed food product?
Apparently so, and here I was thinking that they were through with that $hit after DDT and Silent Spring.
FWIW, this isn't the first study suggesting linkage to the pesticides, AFAIK there are dozens of those. This is, however, the first time I've heard of a linkage to the combination of HFCS and pesticides, and it could explain some of the negative correlation studies out there that say that the pesticides do not cause CCD.
How many reactors have been constructed and put into operation in the US since the Three Mile Island event?
By my count, nearly 100.
If you're counting "in the US" - it's a different US than I live in.
Welcome our nuclear powered flying overlords.
Which is why modern reactors depends on gravity; which to the best of my knowledge has never been turned off.
How many reactors have been constructed and put into operation in the US since the Three Mile Island event?
"Mom and Pop" military was the Minute Man militia, they'll lose every time against a mechanized military backed by a large corporate industrial structure.
Really? I'm sure all our wonderful folks killed by roadside bombs, improvised explosives, and guerilla tactics will be very happy to hear that'd never happen. Oh, shit, right...
Well, yeah, from the "nobody wins" perspective, that is quite true. And the town full of villagers with pitchforks may eventually slay the dragon, or horde of footsoldiers with bayonette may take out a tank.
There's a tremendous difference between attempting to police an unwilling populace and simply attempting to take control of the land and buildings, natives be damned.
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Those are the risks. If a global communications network fails, ya it'll suck but we'll deal. If the global food supply collapses while under the care of one corporation... who will be left alive to deal with the fallout?
Mexico, a lot of South America, China, India... Monsanto doesn't feed everyone. I agree that we are too dependent on "MegaCorp Food," but as long as the mentality of "Hell, no, I'm not paying $6 for this organic loaf of bread when that $2 one looks and tastes just the same to me" persists, the MegaCorps are going to continue to squash the old style farmers.
"Mom and Pop" roads were dirt footpaths, Interstates are better.
"Mom and Pop" military was the Minute Man militia, they'll lose every time against a mechanized military backed by a large corporate industrial structure.
"Mom and Pop" made the abacus for computing, Apple, and even Dell does it better.
"Mom and Pop" would communicate face to face, or shout across the field - telephone/global fiber/satellites improve on that.
Whether it's more warm and fuzzy, or a lifestyle you'd rather live, the "Mom and Pop" operations of the world are actually very un-competitive with mega corporations. Plain Darwinian survival of the fittest is going to put "Mom and Pop" down when the resources get tight, and as world population is headed to 10 Billion, resources do seem to be getting tight.
My hope for the future is that we get competent and capable enough to start colonizing other planets, so we can have some "Mom and Pop" Amish worlds, Native America circa 1300 worlds, and other places so the whole human race doesn't have to compete for the resources of a single planet. Not happening any time soon, I surely know, but the fossil record strongly suggests that in Darwin vs the Luddites, Darwin wins.
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Anyone under 25 is a young stupid kid, period. No matter what school or background they come from, they lack experience.
Speak for yourself, by about 22 I was a rational adult - still drowning in hormones, but that applies to some men in their 60s, too.
Just because you and all your friends were idiots until 26 doesn't make it true for the rest of the world. I see most of the world as being controlled by people 55 and up, with a few rare exceptions where rich old farts have turned their children loose with some power. I think the younger generation could actually do better in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to preparing for the distant future.
35 minimum is a good rule for President, but from 50 up, they should start getting handicapped, like need to get their age in percentage of the popular vote to win against any opponent less than 50 years old.