Too few species and you have a kind of monoculture, filled with a small number of species excellently adapted to parasitizing human society but lousy at doing much of anything else.
Would that short list of human parasites include patent lawyers and business management? XD
Apply for a job to do post-production editing for any of your favorite adult entertainment companies - Playboy's Spice Channel division, Vivid, Wicked Pictures, Red Light District. You will watch porn everyday to do age verification on the performers, edit scenes to make salable to certain markets like Utah (i.e. no anal), etc.
If you do get a job, just remember me when you get tickets to the Adult Video News awards.;)
Now they need to post a public apology (from a Japanese company that's a big deal)
Oh I liked this one. My former ninjutsu sensei told us how Japanese people were one of the few peoples in history where in their creation myth, the japanese people were directly descended from the gods (ref: here and wiki's. Keep in mind, this isn't like the Judeo-Christian Creation, where God had a hand in it, but Man was distinctively a different being from God.
And you wonder how Japanese society remain so homogeneous and elitist when they're embedded in a culture that tells them they're Gods and God knows what those smelly, hairy American barbarians are. Publicly apologize? `But we're perfect!'
Instead, I liked the Chinese version of the Japanese creation myth that my sensei told us in class. In that version, the Chinese emperor sent some of his servants to go and pick mushrooms for dinner. Then never came back to China, but they ended up becoming the Japanese.
Thus, without the Sahara flooding solution, I would suggest the "unthinkable" to many Southern Republican politicians:
Write off New Orleans.
New Orleans is pretty much gone. We need to start thinking about a New New Orleans/refugee camp inland.
Water will "find away" and with all the excess in Lake Pontchatrain and the Mississippi and the lack of wetlands (oh, the irony), the water will seep in and "equilibrate" with bathtub that is New Orleans. Pumping out the water there now is not cost effective.
Call what happened in New Orleans for what it is: an ecological disaster in the making. Excessive industrial and residential development and erecting levees destroy wetlands that naturally buffer against post-hurricane flooding were the fault of the people in Louisiana. This maybe a stretch on my part, but I would say the unusually frequent hurricane season could be attributed to global warming and violent hurricanes like this will be the annual norm if certain government(s) do not take global warming seriously.
But yeah, I'd have to say we may have to write off New Orleans.
It's too sad to see all the history, culture, music, and good food (gumbo!) disappear, but Nature cannot be fooled.
The following is entirely anecdotal evidence, but may shed some light about what's really go down:
I was in Shanghai a few years ago and a colege student from Jiaotong University took me along to visit a family's humble home tucked away in an alley off one of the main streets. There, I saw two parents making some side money selling software copies. Their cute, 10 year old (about that age?) daughter was helping out too, she was really adept with computers. The money from selling the bootlegs helped with paying for school stuff, books, stationary, misc. After my college student buddy picked up some bootleg CDs on the cheap, we bounced.
When I hear about the US condemning China about software piracy, I can't help but remember that there's a young Shanghai girl that's benefiting and helping to pay for basic things we take for granted. Not all software pirates are monsters (by this counterexample).
How much US corporate greed is enough? Can't there be acknowledgement of some piracy that can't be wiped out - i.e. manageable levels of IP piracy, just as much as the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) now has given up on eradicating So. Cal. gangs (to my chagrin) but rather thinks in terms of containment, "manageable levels" of gangs?
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Too few species and you have a kind of monoculture, filled with a small number of species excellently adapted to parasitizing human society but lousy at doing much of anything else.
Would that short list of human parasites include patent lawyers and business management? XD
Apply for a job to do post-production editing for any of your favorite adult entertainment companies - Playboy's Spice Channel division, Vivid, Wicked Pictures, Red Light District. You will watch porn everyday to do age verification on the performers, edit scenes to make salable to certain markets like Utah (i.e. no anal), etc.
;)
If you do get a job, just remember me when you get tickets to the Adult Video News awards.
Now they need to post a public apology (from a Japanese company that's a big deal)
Oh I liked this one. My former ninjutsu sensei told us how Japanese people were one of the few peoples in history where in their creation myth, the japanese people were directly descended from the gods (ref: here and wiki's. Keep in mind, this isn't like the Judeo-Christian Creation, where God had a hand in it, but Man was distinctively a different being from God.
And you wonder how Japanese society remain so homogeneous and elitist when they're embedded in a culture that tells them they're Gods and God knows what those smelly, hairy American barbarians are. Publicly apologize? `But we're perfect!'
Instead, I liked the Chinese version of the Japanese creation myth that my sensei told us in class. In that version, the Chinese emperor sent some of his servants to go and pick mushrooms for dinner. Then never came back to China, but they ended up becoming the Japanese.
Thus, without the Sahara flooding solution, I would suggest the "unthinkable" to many Southern Republican politicians: Write off New Orleans. New Orleans is pretty much gone. We need to start thinking about a New New Orleans/refugee camp inland. Water will "find away" and with all the excess in Lake Pontchatrain and the Mississippi and the lack of wetlands (oh, the irony), the water will seep in and "equilibrate" with bathtub that is New Orleans. Pumping out the water there now is not cost effective. Call what happened in New Orleans for what it is: an ecological disaster in the making. Excessive industrial and residential development and erecting levees destroy wetlands that naturally buffer against post-hurricane flooding were the fault of the people in Louisiana. This maybe a stretch on my part, but I would say the unusually frequent hurricane season could be attributed to global warming and violent hurricanes like this will be the annual norm if certain government(s) do not take global warming seriously. But yeah, I'd have to say we may have to write off New Orleans. It's too sad to see all the history, culture, music, and good food (gumbo!) disappear, but Nature cannot be fooled.
The following is entirely anecdotal evidence, but may shed some light about what's really go down:
I was in Shanghai a few years ago and a colege student from Jiaotong University took me along to visit a family's humble home tucked away in an alley off one of the main streets. There, I saw two parents making some side money selling software copies. Their cute, 10 year old (about that age?) daughter was helping out too, she was really adept with computers. The money from selling the bootlegs helped with paying for school stuff, books, stationary, misc. After my college student buddy picked up some bootleg CDs on the cheap, we bounced.
When I hear about the US condemning China about software piracy, I can't help but remember that there's a young Shanghai girl that's benefiting and helping to pay for basic things we take for granted. Not all software pirates are monsters (by this counterexample).
How much US corporate greed is enough? Can't there be acknowledgement of some piracy that can't be wiped out - i.e. manageable levels of IP piracy, just as much as the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) now has given up on eradicating So. Cal. gangs (to my chagrin) but rather thinks in terms of containment, "manageable levels" of gangs?